Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics ...

New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope's first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been able to examine very compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies, so ...

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

Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores. An international team of researchers ...

Andromeda has been forming fewer stars for about 500 million years, with an especially sharp drop recently. ・Most of the ...

The origin of spin in spiral and elliptical galaxies has posed a long-standing puzzle for astronomers. One idea, known as ...

Recently astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to look at the structures of dust and gas which create stars in nearby galaxies. Now, some of the researchers have shared more about the ...

The universe unfolds across 13 billion years in a breathtaking timelapse that follows cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to the emergence of life on Earth. The journey explores the birth of the first ...

Black holes are the closest things we have left to mythological monsters — the “Here be dragons” warning of our cosmological maps. The supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies deserve ...

The GOODS-South region of space, as seen by the Webb Space Telescope. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Marcia Rieke (University ...

Sometimes, Hubble or other telescopes will capture two or more galaxies that are in the process of merging — called interacting galaxies. These huge collisions can warp one or both of the galaxies, ...