FIR image of BRI 1335–0417 overlaid with our identified bar ellipses (blue ellipse) and two-armed spiral structure identified in Tsukui & Iguchi (2021, black solid line). Contours start at 2σ but are logarithmically spaced in powers of 2 (2σ, 4σ, 8σ,...)....

The image shows the distribution of matter in space (blue; the yellow dots represent individual galaxies). The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies in the bubble move in the direction of the higher matter densities (red arrows). The...

Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory One of the great unknowns of nearly the past one hundred years is the identity of the invisible stuff that makes up the bulk of the matter in our galaxy and others. Called dark matter, this stuff can exert...

Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgment: PI: C. Onken (Australian National University); Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (International Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab), M....

Credit: Cluster image: NASA, UNCOVER (Bezanson et al., DIO: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.04026). Insets: Nasa, UNCOVER (Wang et al., 2023); Composition: Dani Zemba/Penn State Ok, I have to admit, the JWST is finding objects so exceedingly weird that my first reaction is to...

Image Credit: APS/Alan Stonebraker Pairs of objects are responsible for some of the coolest phenomena in our universe, and while a lot of these pairs end up merging into a single object given enough time, there are a few… theoretically at least… that the universe...

JWST initially identified these three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0) as galaxies in December 2022. Now a team suggests they might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. Credit: NASA/ESA We...