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

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is launching a jet of gas with such force and precision that it may be stripping ...

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

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

Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

The galaxy appears to have stopped forming new stars around 400 million years ago. Instead of glowing with newborn stars, it ...

It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

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