He initially thought the galaxy was an unhelpful distraction to his other, unrelated studies of this particular patch of the early universe. The giant spiral didn’t look like it belonged there ...

There is an assumption underlying most galaxy astronomy—that different "components" of a galaxy (i.e., its super-massive black hole or the stars on the edge of its spiral arms) are "separable ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy located approximately 67 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This relatively close ...

Born from cosmic fire, it cooled down as space expanded. Soon, matter clumped together as gravity began to pull. Galaxies emerged from vast clouds of gas, surrounded by dense fog. As they formed, they ...

New Delhi: Twelve billion years ago, in the infancy of the universe, a massive spiral galaxy was already spinning. Known as the "Big Wheel," this galaxy has taken astronomers by surprise, forming much ...

Astronomers have now spotted a colossal spiral galaxy — nicknamed the Big Wheel — that formed far earlier than science ever expected. Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation Reticulum. Credit ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256. Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al / Hubble Space Telescope The cosmic quandary of the expansive spiral galaxy 2MASX ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...