JWST’s Puzzling Early Galaxies Don’t Break Cosmology–But They Do Bend Astrophysics
Ever since it opened its giant infrared eye on the cosmos after its December 2021 launch, the James Webb Space…
Many-Mirrored Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery
If you’re looking for intergalactic eye candy and cosmic bling, it’s hard to beat Abell 3827, a crowded cluster of…
Hoʻoleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers
Cosmic cartographer Brent Tully was inspecting his team’s latest high-precision maps of the positions and motions of 56,000 galaxies in…
JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes
Proportions—think of the golden ratio and its kindred—are the bedrock of our reality, found in everything from music to the…