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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the ‘Infinity’ galaxy — two merging galaxies forming a supermassive black hole — possibly the ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, have found evidence of a fast-growing black hole in an unexpected place and ...

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