Here Is What a Quasar Looks Like
The strange cosmic objects called quasars are some of the perkiest objects in the cosmos. Quasars are essentially galaxies with massive black holes at their cores, sucking in matter and releasing gou…
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Unknown Region Void of Galaxies is Pushing the Milky Way at Hyperspeed
Until now, scientists assumed that a dense region of the universe is pulling us toward it, in the same way that gravity made Newton's apple fall to earth. The initial "prime suspect" wa…
The 12 Craziest Hubble Pictures of All Time
The Hubble Space Telescope has continuously unleashed a stream of jaw-dropping intergalactic imagery since it launched on April 24, 1990. Not only do these images, which look more like paintings at f…
NASA Just Released The New Images Taken By Hubble, And They're Seriously Spectacular
NASA has released a batch of new images in its Hubble Messier Catalogue , giving us fresh looks at galaxies, nebulae, and more. Almost 250 years ago, French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a list …
Researchers Created The World's Largest Simulation of the Universe
A group of researchers have built the world's largest simulation of the universe , containing around 25 billion virtual galaxies. The simulation could help in the search for mysterious dark matte…
Mysterious Milky Way Signal Comes from the Past, Not Dark Matter
A mysterious cosmic signal radiating from the center of our Milky Way galaxy is actually triggered by ancient stars, rather than dark matter, according to a new study. Image: An artist's illustr…
Astronomers Discover Galaxies Spin Like Clockwork
The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year. "It's not Swiss watch precision," said Profess…
Hold Onto Your Brain: Astronomers Have Discovered That Universe Is Far Bigger Than We Thought, And It Has 10x More Galaxies
So now it turns out, what we call the observable universe — the portion observable within our cosmological horizon, a.k.a the final frontier — has at least 10 times more galaxies than the mid-1990s H…
Check Out This 1.5 BILLION Pixel Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy
This 1.5 Billion pixel image is the largest and sharpest photograph ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy. In order to observe all of the 1.5 billion pixels, you’d need 600 HD TV screens to observe the …
Something Mysterious Is Killing 11,000 nearby Galaxies
New research published January 17, 2017 by a global team of researchers focused on 11,000 relatively nearby galaxies and asked why their gas — their lifeblood for the formation of new stars — is bei…
The Universe Has Ten Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought
The census of galaxies just got a whole lot bigger. The observable universe is filled with ten times more galaxies than scientists previously thought there were, astronomers reported on Thursday. Res…
Scientists Unable To Explain Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signal
Space is steeped in mystery, and that very thought alone has made scientists determined to break through some of the biggest questions of all. Yet finding solutions to some only make more what-ifs ar…
There’s No Such Thing as Nothing, According to Quantum Physics
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss clarifies how, over the last hundred or so years, trying to pin down the reality of nothingness has become astonishingly complicated. You know, the Biblical void…