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Topic: galaxies

Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

One Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
James Webb space telescope in deep space researching far galaxies. (Getty Images/dima_zel)

"Little red dots" space mystery solved

Matthew Rozsa
This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI))

James Webb challenges cosmic theories

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date. (European Southern Observatory)

Compact galaxies are masters of disguise

Fabio Pacucci - The Conversation
In late 2019, the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before and was classified as having an active galactic nucleus, powered by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s core. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Scientists witness a black hole awaken

Matthew Rozsa
A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light. (EHT Collaboration)

Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

Rae Hodge
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
Supermassive Black Hole (Getty Images/solarseven)

Astronomers eye a "runaway" black hole

Nicole Karlis
A mosaic collected by James Webb of a region of space close to the Big Dipper, with insets showing the location of six new candidate galaxies from the dawn of the universe. (NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen))

Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

Troy Farah
This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black holes on a collision course

Troy Farah
Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation
The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31

Galaxies are eating each other

JoEllen McBride
(Daniel Eisenstein, SDSS-III)

More than just a pretty image

Scott Eric Kaufman

Sarah Fecht - Popular Science
(Wikimedia via www.forestwander.com/the-sky)

Jessica Cheng - Popular Science