Dubbed 'Porphyrion' after a mythological Greek giant, this immense structure originated when the universe was just 6.3 ...
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...
The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.
An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided groundbreaking data from near the edge of the solar system, revealing the cosmic ...
The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.
A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...
NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...
The plumes stretch farther than any yet seen, reaching millions of light-years long and potentially influencing the cosmos ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...
Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...
17, 2024 — With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe ... outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy.