Distant Galaxies

Learn more about the discoveries happening on Maunakea related to distant galaxies and stars — some of the oldest detected objects in the universe.

Discoveries

Distant Galaxy Fades 20-Fold in Just Two Decades ― Rapid Decline in Gas Supply to Its SuperMassive Black Hole
The Largest Survey of Exoplanet Spins Confirms Long-predicted Relationship Between Planetary Mass and Rotation
Astronomers Find Compelling Evidence of a Star Collapsing Directly Into a Black Hole
Massive Cloud With Metallic Winds Discovered Orbiting Mystery Object
"Rule-Breaking," Extremely Fast-Growing Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet in a Disk Galaxy
“Superkilonova” A Star So Nice, It Explodes Twice
Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM
Discovery of Brown Dwarf Companion Provides New Insight into Stellar and Planetary Formation and Evolution
Astronomers Discover Hidden Faint Dust-Obscured Galaxies Magnified by Gravitational Lenses
First-of-its-kind ‘Bare-Bones’ Supernova Upends Star Evolution Models
New Record: Keck Observatory Measures Most Distant Galaxy
Earliest Twin Quasars Irradiated Young Universe
International Gemini Observatory and Subaru Combine Forces to Discover First Ever Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Record-breaking Fast Radio Burst is Most Distant Ever Detected
Starlight and the First Black Holes: Researchers Detect the Host Galaxies of Quasars in the Early Universe
Cosmic Web Lights Up in the Darkness of Space

On the First Stars to Form in our Galaxy