The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

As a result, gas from M81 has found its way into M82's center, spurring an uptick in star formation despite the galaxy's ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU) have revealed how the Milky Way's hidden gas moves through space, by using the joint power ...

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

The black hole is growing because of all it is sucking inwards and rapidly. Everything around it, from stars to interstellar ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Astronomers have discovered that the distant galaxy A1689-zD1 has an unusually low dust-to-gas ratio, using the James Webb ...

NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous ...