star formation
Supermassive Black Holes can Turn Star Formation On and Off in a Large Galaxy
A new study by a team of international astronomers has provided the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes affect…
Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy that was Finished Making Stars Just a Few Billion Years After the Big Bang
Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star…
Are There Dark Matter Galaxies? ft. Sarah Pearson from Space with Sarah
We know there’s dark matter, and there are galaxies, but are there galaxies entirely made up of dark matter? Astronomer…
Distant Stellar Nurseries: This Time, in High Definition
This article is a guest post by Anna Ho, who is currently doing research on stars in the Milky Way…
Winds of Supermassive Black Holes Can Shape Galaxy-Wide Star Formation
The combined observations from two generations of X-Ray space telescopes have now revealed a more complete picture of the nature of…
A Snapshot of a Galactic Crash
Some galaxies shine with a red ghostly glow. Once these galaxies stop forming new stars, they can only host long-lived…
ESO’s Latest Dramatic Landscape
The universe is stunning. Images from even the most modest telescopes can unveil its brilliant beauty. But couple that with…
The Making of the Pillars of Creation
It’s one of the most iconic images of the modern Space Age. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope team released…
Powerful Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies Helped Shape the Early Universe, a New Study Suggests
Massive galaxies in the early Universe formed stars at a much faster clip than they do today — creating the…
Early Supermassive Black Holes First Formed as Twins
It's one of the puzzles of cosmology and stellar evolution: how did supermassive black holes get so... well, supermassive... in the…