Cosmology

The Largest Galaxy Ever Seen Has Just Been Discovered

The radio lobes of Alcyoneus. (Oei et al., arXiv, 2022).Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxyHiding some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching five megaparsecs into space. That is 16.3 million light-years long and represents the biggest recognized structure of galactic origin.The finding highlights our poor...

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Too Many Disk Galaxies Than Theory Allows

The Standard Model of Cosmology defines how the universe came into being according to the perspective of most physicists. Researchers at the University of Bonn have actually currently studied the evolution of galaxies within this model, finding considerable inconsistencies with real observations. The University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Charles University in the...

We Ultimately Know When Our Milky Way Will Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy

Our Galaxy galaxy will undoubtedly endure in its present kind of bit longer than some astronomers had believed, a new research study suggests.A view of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, with measurements of the motions of stars within the galaxy. This spiral galaxy is the nearest large neighbor of our Milky Way. (Image...