This was the birth of our modern universe of galaxies, so poetically celebrated in Seeing in the Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely ...

Though stars, planets, dust and gas make up about 5 per cent of the universe ... galaxy. To discover more dark secrets of the Milky Way, visit the Hong Kong Space Museum’s free exhibition ...

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As the sun dipped low to the southwest of the Grand Canyon, tourists flocked to the rim. They lined up to catch the shuttle ...

Each galaxy seen in this image ... of the Tohono O'odham Nation. "If black holes contain dark energy, they can couple to and grow with the expanding universe, causing its growth to accelerate ...

In the earliest moments of the universe, nearly 14 billion ... 10.5 and 11.5 billion years ago. Each galaxy seen in this image is therefore producing many black holes, which are converting matter into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories ...

The visible universe ... dark matter impossible to detect with current instruments. But scientists are confident it exists because of the gravitational effects it appears to have on galaxies and ...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe ... of stars and possibly black holes," said Tacchella.

“But we would know that the universe allows for this particle.” Another alluring possibility, called fuzzy dark matter, has seized the imaginations of some cosmologists. In a ...