Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

Quasars stripped early galaxies of their gas, the basic raw material for making stars.

Astronomers have discovered two early-universe galaxies where the central black holes appear to have grown far faster than ...

This discovery of ancient stars provides insights into the chaotic evolution of the early Milky Way.

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found the best candidates yet for the universe’s first stars. These so-called Population III stars arose shortly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, ...

Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from the James Webb telescope). Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory ...

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...

Scientists found one of the earliest known slow-spinning galaxies, challenging long-standing ideas about how massive galaxies ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...