Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of LEDA 1313424, the Bullseye galaxy, which measures 2.5x larger than the Milky Way. LEDA 1313424 has more rings than any other known galaxy in ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

The Euclid Space Telescope has captured a remarkable image showing an extremely rare phenomenon: a ring of light around the center of a galaxy, known as an Einstein Ring. These structures appear in ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...