Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

Although the findings are yet to be confirmed, it marks the closest astronomers have come to locating these ancient stars ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Discover how JWST's groundbreaking observations of the oldest galaxies reveal new insights into early galaxies discovery and transform our understanding of galaxy formation.

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The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

The most obvious one is astronomers’ use of the word metal to mean any element heavier than helium. Using a single term to ...