Nov 8, 2019 by News Staff

An effect called strong gravitational lensing has allowed the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to see the same remote galaxy twelve times. Called PSZ1 G311.65-18.48,...

May 10, 2019 by News Staff

New data from Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes show that in a few specific wavelengths of infrared light, some of the first galaxies to form in the...

Mar 14, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered 83 quasars in the distant Universe, from a time when the Universe was less than 10% of its present...

Jan 10, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted the brightest quasar ever seen in the early Universe. Less than a billion years after...

Dec 7, 2017 by News Staff

New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) push back the epoch of massive-galaxy formation even further by identifying...

Dec 7, 2017 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers has discovered and measured the distance to the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. Artist’s conception...

Mar 9, 2017 by News Staff

New observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have demonstrated that A2744_YD4 — the youngest and most remote galaxy...

Jun 17, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the most distant oxygen yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy 13.1...

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the 10-m Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii. Color...

Jan 14, 2016 by News Staff

According to a multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Yuri Izotov from the Main Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine, so-called ‘green pea’ galaxies...

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

Using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in three extremely distant...

Sep 9, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has generated the most accurate statistical description yet of early galaxies as they existed in the Universe about...

Aug 10, 2015 by News Staff

Known by its catalog name, EGSY-2008532660 (EGSY8p7 for short), the galaxy is so far away that light from it now reaching ground-based telescopes shows...

Jul 22, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers – led by Dr Roberto Maiolino from the University of Cambridge, UK – has detected the most distant clouds of star-forming...

May 6, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers led by Dr Pascal Oesch of Yale University has discovered a massive galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past...

Mar 3, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

Thanks to new data from European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope, researchers have found that the reionization – one of the most important...

Oct 11, 2014 by News Staff

In an effort to better understand how the Universe evolved as the first stars were formed, U.S. astronomers led by Dr Sanchayeeta Borthakur of Johns Hopkins...