The Galaxy that Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole sitting alone in the young universe, with no galaxy in sight. The discovery is forcing cosmologists to rethink how everything—stars, galaxies, even dark...
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The Supernova Split Into Four: How One Ancient Star May Rewrite Cosmic Expansion
Astronomers have caught a single titanic stellar explosion in the act of being pulled apart and magnified by intervening galaxies, opening a radically precise new way to weigh the universe’s...
The Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist: Inside the Discovery of a Negative-Mass Cosmos
Astronomers have identified a distant galaxy whose stars and gas behave as if embedded in a cloud of negative mass, forcing cosmologists to rethink gravity, dark matter, and the fate...
First Gravitationally Lensed Superluminous Supernova Unveils Secrets of the Early Universe
Astronomers have captured the first-ever spatially resolved images of a superluminous supernova bent by gravity from distant galaxies, offering a magnified glimpse into a cosmic explosion from 10 billion years...
The Galaxy-Spanning Whirlpool: Astronomers Find a Cosmic Rotating Filament
Astronomers have discovered one of the largest rotating structures ever seen in the universe: a razor-thin, galaxy-spanning filament that spins like a slow cosmic turbine, challenging long‑held assumptions about how...