Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

A new study suggests galaxies in the early universe appear much larger and brighter than expected, precisely as predicted by ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

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 ...

Dark matter could produce faint flashes of light when interacting with tiny black holes ... vast majority of the mass of almost every galaxy in the universe, but its exact nature still eludes ...

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 ...

One of Euclid’s primary goals is to observe dark matter and dark ... of stars near an individual galaxy to some of the largest structures in the universe. We are beginning to see the first ...