A study has been published revealing a mechanism by which "jets" erupting from supermassive black holes at the centers of ...

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our ...

Supermassive black holes effectively “kill” their host galaxies by launching powerful plasma jets that disrupt star formation ...

New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation.

At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole — a ginormous entity with a mass so large, it can outweigh millions, if not billions, of suns. According to new research, published in The ...

Black holes are the closest things we have left to mythological monsters — the “Here be dragons” warning of our cosmological maps. The supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies deserve ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope's first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been able to examine very compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies, so ...

Gas clouds are a common feature of galaxies. Some are classed as high-velocity clouds and we suspected these might account for some of this galactic feeding material. What makes high-velocity clouds ...

Sometimes, Hubble or other telescopes will capture two or more galaxies that are in the process of merging — called interacting galaxies. These huge collisions can warp one or both of the galaxies, ...