Jets are colossal structures that erupt from the poles of an actively feeding black hole. The black hole devours clouds of ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Observations of Pablo’s Galaxy show repeated black hole heating restricted gas inflow, limiting new star formation in the early universe, based on Webb and ALMA data.

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

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

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

What were galaxies like in the early universe? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as ...

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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). Because this ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.