The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

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"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B." Astronomers have discovered that the ...