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 ...

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 ...

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

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy ...

Wellesley, Massachusetts — Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The ...

The galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154 is so massive it is warping the fabric of space-time and distorting the appearance of galaxies behind it, an effect known as gravitational lensing. This natural ...

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