Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified what may be the most distant barred spiral galaxy ever ...

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a ...

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Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds, and the whole system settles into motion. That is why one faraway object ...

Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope report that a massive galaxy from the early universe shows no sign of ...

A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out new stars at a furious ...

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form ...

A new study suggests that some of the Universe's earliest giant galaxies may have lived dramatic lives. They began as dusty stellar factories, producing hundreds of stars each year, before suddenly ...

An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn has studied a ...

Cosmological hydrodynamics and galaxy formation simulations combine gravitational dynamics with fluid physics to model the growth of structure from the early Universe to the present day. By solving ...

Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. (NASA, ESA / Hubble, J. Andrews, University ...