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Why it's so special: Galaxy clusters act as a magnifying lens, shining light on the faintest and most distant objects — a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. On the rarest of occasions, galaxy ...

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter in space. What makes this cluster famous isn’t the violence of it all. It’s ...

Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter. Astronomers ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The young star is off to the lower right ...

A UC Davis graduate student who is leading a study of the collision of galaxy clusters 5 billion light years away will discuss the team’s findings today, Jan. 10, in a press briefing at the annual ...

"These cluster collisions are the most energetic phenomena since the Big Bang." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

This artist's concept shows what happened when two massive clusters of galaxies, collectively known as MACS J0018.5, collided: The dark matter in the galaxy clusters (blue) sailed ahead of the ...