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

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol that may contain the first directly observed newborn ...

How did supermassive black holes come to be? Astronomers have two hypotheses for their formation, and now one of them might ...

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

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the ...

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

The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were ...

This lends it the shape of an infinity symbol, hence its memorable name. What's most striking, though, is what appears between them, revealed in follow-up observations: an enormous supermassive ...

In the heavy seeds scenario a supermassive black hole forms directly from the collapse of a large gas cloud. In the case of the Infinity Galaxy, this occurred during the collision, when the ...