Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

A galaxy named GS-10578 is known by the aphorism “Live fast, die young.” A majority of its stars formed between 12.5 and 11.5 ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Measuring the energy of hot gas within a remote group of galaxies reinforces the importance of giant black holes in forming ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...