"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

What if the universe’s most mysterious monsters aren’t born in darkness, but in the bright turbulence of colliding galaxies?

Astronomers may have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of forming inside a uniquely shaped galaxy. Astronomers ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they dubbed the Infinity Galaxy. It appears to support a leading theory on how ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...