The Milky Way is a rotating disk-shaped galaxy, and is pretty stock standard for its age. It’s generally believed that it took billions of years for galaxies to take on that shape, but now astronomers ...

One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A massive, rotating disk galaxy that first formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a massive ...

ALMA radio image of the Wolfe Disk, seen when the universe was only ten percent of its current age. [Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Neeleman; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello] Most massive disk galaxies ...

Researchers have made an interesting discovery using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array or ALMA. The discovery is a massive rotating disc galaxy as seen when the universe was only 10% of ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant galaxy ...

The Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early universe, was discovered in 2017 when a stargazing project in the Chilean desert examined light from a distant quasar (top left) absorbed in ...

Current models of massive galaxy formation suggest that they evolve as part of a slow growth process, gradually increasing in size through mergers with smaller galaxies and the accumulation of clumps ...

Alfred Tiley is at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia. A key component of this mystery is why some ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing an enormous black hole in the unassuming Segue 1, a nearby dwarf ...