distant galaxy – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

IMAGE RELEASE: Cosmic Lens Reveals Faint Radio Galaxy

Astronomers using the VLA took advantage of the gravitational lensing provided by a distant cluster of galaxies to detect an even more-distant galaxy that probably is the faintest radio-emitting object ever found.

Quasar Discovery Sets New Distance Record

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with other telescopes, have discovered the most distant quasar yet found. The bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy, is seen as it was only 670 million years after the Big Bang, and is providing valuable clues about how such huge black holes and their host galaxies formed in the early Universe.

New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe

A cosmic measurement technique independent of all others adds strong evidence pointing to a problem with the current theoretical model describing the composition and evolution of the Universe.

ALMA Sees Einstein Ring in Stunning Image of Lensed Galaxy

Astronomers have observed a cosmic ring with the help of ALMA.

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