Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

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

Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

On Friday, to mark the second anniversary of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released a breathtaking new cosmic image of two galaxies merging together. The telescope, which launched ...

In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes that power high-speed, ...

Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have announced that they have developed a new tool to find otherwise-hidden galaxy mergers in data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point ...

Astronomers have spotted three merging galaxies where all central black holes are actively feeding and radio bright, ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a tiny set of galaxies in the early universe that look deceptively simple but ...