The large-scale structure of the universe exhibits a filamentary distribution of galaxies forming a cosmic web, with galaxies and galaxy clusters preferentially aligned along these filaments, as ...

A supermassive black hole appears to have been kicked out of its home galaxy and is racing through intergalactic space, trailed by a luminous wake of newborn stars. The object, now known as RBH-1, ...

Galaxies can form pointing every which way in space, but researchers have been surprised over the years to find that the most massive ones in huge clusters lined up to match their overall clusters' ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, ...

The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image is producing multiple images of a single distant supernova far behind it. Both the ...

European eels could navigate tricky coastal waters using the Earth’s magnetic field, according to researchers in the US and Norway. The eels begin their lives in the Sargasso Sea and then migrate ...

“Nonsense! Hot air! Balderdash!” blurted out Pavel Kroupa, an astrophysicist at the University of Bonn in Germany, as I stood at the head of the lecture hall. I was just a graduate student at the time ...