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

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

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

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published study, ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe." ...