Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The ...

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Image: When a large nearby object, such as a galaxy, blocks a distant object, such as another galaxy, the light can detour around the blockage. But instead of taking a single path, light can bend ...

Astronomers have revealed the largest known structure in the universe, which is made up of not only clusters of galaxies but also clusters of these clusters that form a gravitationally interacting ...

The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together. The findings, made with ...

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Will it be a slow fade? A big rip? An abrupt disintegration? We don't know for sure how the universe will end. But thanks to theoretical astrophysicists like Katie Mack, we can speculate. That ...