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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: July 13, 2026.
A massive, chemically mature spiral with a 14,700-light-year central bar existed just over a billion years after the Big Bang — a structure astronomers thought could not form so early.
The galaxy M1149-BSG-z5 already had a central bar of stars less than 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang — a structure astronomers assumed couldn't exist so early, and one that rewrites the timeline for how galaxies grow up.
The faint galaxy DF9 joins two earlier oddballs in a straight line of objects that appear to lack the invisible mass thought to bind galaxies together — hinting at a violent birth.
Astronomers were stunned to find that XMM-VID1-2075, a massive galaxy formed less than two billion years after the Big Bang, shows no sign of rotation — a trait normally seen only in much older, evolved systems.
XMM-VID1-2075, identified by a UC Davis–led team using JWST's NIRSpec integral-field spectrograph and published in Nature Astronomy on May 4, has a rotation-to-dispersion ratio below 0.3 — making it dynamically indistinguishable from fossil galaxies that should not exist for another five billion years.
DAMPE space telescope reveals universal pattern governing mysterious ultra-powerful particles traveling across the galaxy.
Catalogued EGS-z11-R0 contains carbon, multiple stellar generations and thick interstellar dust at a redshift of 11 — features that current cosmological models say should require a billion years or more to assemble.
Astronomers using LOFAR and India's uGMRT radio telescopes documented the dramatic reawakening of a dormant black hole in galaxy J1007+3540, with new plasma jets stretching nearly one million light-years.
Fourteen million light-years away, astronomers have confirmed the first Reionization-Limited H I Cloud — a relic of the early universe containing five billion solar masses of dark matter and not a single star.
A precessing black hole jet in galaxy VV 340a is sweeping hot plasma across its entire host galaxy like a cosmic sprinkler, stripping star-forming gas at a rate equivalent to 19 suns per year.