Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one is churning out stars ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

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Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores. An international team of researchers ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...

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A team of astronomers from the University of Geneva used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot the most distant quiescent galaxy ever found. The discovery, made just 700 million years after ...

These three galaxy images from the AEGIS survey show a range of galaxy types: a disk-like spiral galaxy (top), a cloud-like elliptical galaxy (middle), and an irregular galaxy resulting from a ...

Learn how dozens of galaxies may have merged into a giant galaxy shortly after the Big Bang.

Schematic diagram shows how spheroid formation occurs in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies, and how this process connects to the evolution of giant elliptical galaxies in today's Universe. On the ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.