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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope could dramatically change our understanding of galaxy formation and dark matter by revealing a galaxy larger than the Milky Way that existed more than 11 billion years ago. The study, published in the journal Nature, showed that this ancient massive galaxy contains stars that formed 1.5 billion […]
The analysis of data collected by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope allowed the researchers to detect a deceptively “quiet” black hole. Its latent activity affects star formation processes throughout the galaxy. How black holes affect their galaxies At the center of almost every large galaxy is a supermassive black hole, whose powerful gravity draws in gas […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a photo of a 250 thousand meter long star bridge. light years, stretching between two galaxies from the Arp 295 group, NASA reports. When galaxies are so close that they gravitationally affect each other’s shape, they are called interacting galaxies. The process of interaction takes place over billions […]
The latest photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope captures the collision of two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642, at a distance of about 570 million light years from Earth. This incredible cosmic event looks spectacular and dynamic, but in fact it is quite slow and will take hundreds of millions of years. […]
Scientists have obtained an image of the ESO 174-1 object. It is an irregular galaxy located not far from us, according to the NASA website. What is known ESO 174-1 is located 11 million light years from Earth. On a galactic scale, it can be considered a neighbor of the Milky Way. The photographed galaxy […]
The James Webb Telescope has received new images of the galaxy NGC 7469. This galaxy with an active black hole at its center is ideally located for observation — its entire plane is extended toward Earth. But the special Christmas charm of the picture was given by the image defects caused by the stretching of […]