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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn't supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big ...

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

Astronomers studying a massive and unusual spiral galaxy have found hints at the possible fate of our own home, the Milky Way. When looking at the universe, we have found plenty of evidence to support ...

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