Scientists believe they've spotted the biggest wave ever discovered. But before you pull out your surfboard, you should probably know this is a tad bigger than anything you'd find on Earth: this wave ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Perseus galaxy cluster taken by the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.

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Astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery, revealing the long-hidden object that collided with the Perseus cluster in a vast-scale hit-and-run billions of years ago. Composed of thousands of galaxies ...

The Perseus cluster is a vast swirl of thousands of galaxies, all bound together by gravity. Famed for its unbelievable size — containing the mass of some 600 trillion suns — it also has a reputation ...

Two enormous galaxies capture your attention in this spectacular image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The galaxy on the left is a lenticular ...

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered new details that are helping them decipher the mystery of how giant radio-emitting structures ...

The galaxy cluster is filled with bubbles blown into X-ray emitting gas, producing some of the deepest sounds ever heard. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...