Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

Scientists say they detected the largest-ever merger of two black holes, forming one that is 225 times the mass of the sun, adding that the new discovery "pushes the limits of" how astronomers ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods. Launched on Christmas Day, 2021, it has since sent back a storm of dazzling images and a trove of good science. Now Webb has done it ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...