A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

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

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

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a galaxy gleaming with the birth of stars, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the early stages of galaxy formation.

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

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

Astronomers used a cosmic lens to reveal a hyperactive protocluster. ALMA and VLA observations uncover tightly packed ...

A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best glimpse yet at what our own infant Milky Way might have looked like. Bursting ...

A twisting black hole jet is pushing gas across a star-forming galaxy, revealing how black holes can reshape disks from the ...