The astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth, seen as it was when the Universe was only ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A massive galaxy cluster, Abell S1063, forms a gravitation lens, revealing the warped light from ...

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The most distant celestial object ever observed, nicknamed Earendel, might just be a cosmic optical illusion. Discovered in 2022 by the Hubble Space Telescope, Earendel was initially identified as an ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The multiple images of the exploding star are caused by the powerful gravity ...

The galaxy group Pandora’s Cluster sits in front of a cosmic background brimming with deep space galaxies. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology) / R. Bezanson ...

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it has about 10,000 times the mass of the black hole at the center ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) / Hubble Space Telescope There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in ...