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T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around it—or the other way around—is still a matter of some debate, but we know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...