Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

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

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on the early universe and found something that should not quite ...

Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores. An international team of researchers ...

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 ...

In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the galaxy. Researchers at the International Centre for ...

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