SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged galaxies A plasma-spewing black hole is killing a neighboring galaxy's ability to make stars This is the real star killer. By Cassidy Ward | 3 months ago Black hole delivery pipeline may feed a nearby galaxy A medium-sized black hole is headed directly toward another medium-sized black hole. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Head-on cosmic collision: The incredible Cartwheel galaxy seen by JWST One of the weirdest galaxies in the heavens glows beautifully in new images. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago In the early Universe, dark galaxies swarmed They were dark on the outside, but broiling star-forming chaos on the inside. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Did JWST find the most distant galaxy ever seen? Maaaaaybe. GLASSz13 may be — MAY be — the most distant galaxy ever detected. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies Stripped gas condenses to form massive blue stars. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago The first JWST images of the infrared sky are here and they do *not* disappoint My God. It’s full of… the Universe. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Load More
A plasma-spewing black hole is killing a neighboring galaxy's ability to make stars This is the real star killer. By Cassidy Ward | 3 months ago
Black hole delivery pipeline may feed a nearby galaxy A medium-sized black hole is headed directly toward another medium-sized black hole. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
Head-on cosmic collision: The incredible Cartwheel galaxy seen by JWST One of the weirdest galaxies in the heavens glows beautifully in new images. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
In the early Universe, dark galaxies swarmed They were dark on the outside, but broiling star-forming chaos on the inside. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
Did JWST find the most distant galaxy ever seen? Maaaaaybe. GLASSz13 may be — MAY be — the most distant galaxy ever detected. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies Stripped gas condenses to form massive blue stars. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
The first JWST images of the infrared sky are here and they do *not* disappoint My God. It’s full of… the Universe. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago