Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

A recent study led by scientists at the University of Missouri, published in The Astrophysical Journal, revealed some astonishing findings made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

New research reveals that active supermassive black holes can halt star formation in neighboring galaxies, acting like cosmic serial killers across millions of light-years.

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo in Japan and elsewhere have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to ...

Protogalaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA via Courthouse News). (CN) — When astronomers started looking at new images of the deep universe obtained from the James Webb Space ...

These three galaxy images from the AEGIS survey show a range of galaxy types: a disk-like spiral galaxy (top), a cloud-like elliptical galaxy (middle), and an irregular galaxy resulting from a ...

"Imagine that you shoot a cloud with a gun; the energy of the bullet can be as large as you wish, and the cloud won't care. Yet we see less clouds of gas where there are black holes." When you ...