Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

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Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after ...

Astronomers Find ‘Impossible’ Galaxy ACDG-2 With Virtually No Stars and a Massive Dark Matter Core Detected through its globular clusters, the galaxy contains just six million suns’ worth of starlight ...

A strange galaxy with trailing blue streams has turned up in one of the most studied patches of the sky. What looks otherworldly is actually a window into the universe 8.5 billion years ago, when ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

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