Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars. A galaxy’s central black hole and its slow, long-term ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably tiny group of six young galaxies just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This may ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have directly measured a black hole that outweighs its own host galaxy, a ...

A new simulation study suggests that the Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope (ATT12), a next-generation facility led by ...

Andrew Cooper, Associate Professor at National Tsing Hua University's Institute of Astronomy, has joined the European Space ...

In a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the origin of our galaxy—and to learn about how other galaxies formed in the early stages of the ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

"We believe that the mechanism that 'turns on' these gigantic radio emissions is linked to the formation process of galaxy ...

Scientists are turning to the beautiful and famous Whirlpool Galaxy to look for areas where stars could eventually be born. By mapping out the presence of particular chemicals, they hope to learn ...

Galaxy formation and evolution modelling combines astrophysical theory, numerical techniques and observational data to reconstruct the life cycle of galaxies from the early universe to the present day ...