Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The Milky Way has two prominent satellite galaxies, called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. (The Magellanic Clouds are visible on Earth only from the southern hemisphere; their existence was ...

As the name suggests, dark matter neither reflects ... between the fainter galaxies and the brighter galaxies - as determined by their luminosity functions. This should correspond to the billion ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

It connects the internal dynamics of galaxies to the physics of plasmas and the theory of wave in fluids with a delight in the universality of the laws of mechanics … An endearing characteristic is ...

The RIT AGN-Galactic Environments research group studies several aspects of AGN and the interplay between SMBHs and their host galaxies using a combination of targeted multiwavelength observations ...

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one ...

So how did the galaxies transform their shape from flat discs to three-dimensional elliptical galaxies? Our study examined the distribution of dust in more than 100 distant galaxies, which we know ...

The galaxies they observed have redshifts between z = 0.7 and z = 2.5, meaning that the galaxies are seen as they were 6 ...