Researchers have observed that elliptical galaxies can act as lenses, brightening the light of objects behind them. According ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

Closest Quasar: This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and ...

Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

According to their study published on arXiv, a team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery of an ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1270 lies about 240 million light-years away. But it's not alone. It's part of the Perseus Cluster (Abell 426), the brightest X-ray object in the sky and one of the most ...

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Using the CHIME telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected a new repeating fast radio burst (FRBs) source ...

Hubble's recent capture, MCG+05-31-045 in the Coma cluster, illustrates the evolution of galaxies under extreme gravitational forces. This interaction, typical for dense galaxy clusters, demonstrates ...