New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths ...

Research has shed new light on why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars. An international team led by ...

Advanced cosmological models suggest up to eight starless dark galaxies lie hidden in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way ...

Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a dark and simple place. There were no galaxies like ...

Some galaxies meant to be spirals might've been smoothed-out into clumpy ellipticals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you were ...

Black holes, some of the most captivating entities in the cosmos, possess an immense gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves in ...

The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has introduced the HPE Cray XD2000 system as a new supercomputer to replace the current dedicated ...

Computer simulations show that the standard model of cosmology isn’t, in fact, broken. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The bright ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...