Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

Research has shed new light on why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars. An international team led by ...

Distant galaxies that abruptly stopped making stars have puzzled astronomers for years. About 9 billion years ago, during one ...

An international team of astronomers announced they had discovered 31 quasars. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

Peering far into the distant, high-redshift universe, the James Webb telescope has discovered an abundance of small red ...

An intense demolition derby of at least six galaxies smashing into one another has been found lurking in the early universe ...

The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...