New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early universe.

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered galaxies colliding in the early universe, revealing that cosmic structures are far more complicated than astronomers once ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...

A surprising new set of objects in space with mismatched parts has been discovered by University of Missouri astronomers, ...