Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

Extreme early winds: JWST spotted quasar-driven winds up to 5,000 miles per second, capable of removing star-forming gas from early galaxies. Rarer over time: These extreme outflows were four times ...

Astronomers have discovered two early-universe galaxies where the central black holes appear to have grown far faster than ...

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A distant galaxy has been caught in the act of shutting down. The galaxy, called CQ 4479, is still forming plenty of new stars. But it also has an actively feeding supermassive black hole at its ...

Quasar winds spotted: JWST observations revealed extreme winds in early quasars, confirming long-standing predictions about their role in galaxy evolution. Star birth halted: These winds likely ...

A galaxy hosting a quasar in the distant universe, right, jabs another galaxy with its beam of intense radiation as the two bump and collide. Credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Sergei Balashev / ...

UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...

Astronomers found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early universe, due to it spewing out a jet of extremely fast-moving material. Scientists have revealed in ...

Research led by Johns Hopkins University scientists has found new, persuasive evidence that could help solve a long-standing mystery in astrophysics: why did the pace of star formation in the universe ...