Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics: a discipline that has traced the history of the universe from fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the ...

To find them, researchers first used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a powerful telescope designed to observe the faint glow of cold dust in distant space. ALMA ...

Arp 4 is a galactic duo immortalized by the Hubble Space Telescope. In the image, a small bright spiral appears to be orbiting around a larger, darker companion. However, this apparent proximity ...

A global team led by UMass Amherst identified dusty, star-forming galaxies nearly 13 billion years old, bridging gaps between early ultrabright and quiescent galaxies in the universe.

James Webb Space Telescope detects a candidate jellyfish galaxy 5 billion years after the Big Bang, providing insights into ram-pressure stripping and early galaxy evolution.

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate ...

At first glance, the image itself doesn't seem like much. In a field full of sharper galaxies, most of them younger, closer, and simpler to comprehend, there ...

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 ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

Here’s the thing: science is supposed to feel like this occasionally. A good model explains most observations and makes ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible — low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.