These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

Hiding behind our Milky Way galaxy is a collision so immense astronomers say it is the largest astronomical event in the universe. A team of astronomers has identified immense shockwaves radiating out ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted enormous, galaxy-scale shock waves rattling the "cosmic web" that connects nearly all known galaxies. These cosmic waves could reveal clues about how the ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

A group of U.S. astronomers, including those from the University of Missouri and MIT, used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to study the most massive cluster ever found in the early ...

This distant explosion was five times more powerful than the previous record holder Telescopes scanning the far reaches of space have turned up something remarkable, an immense cavity in the ...

Astronomers have just discovered the largest black hole in the history of space and the stunning find is rewriting all we know about our universe. But black holes are also proving to be the centre of, ...

A team of astronomers has identified immense shockwaves radiating out from a massive collision in space as the biggest in the known universe. Hiding behind the dust and gas of our Milky Way galaxy is ...