A global team led by UMass Amherst identified dusty, star-forming galaxies nearly 13 billion years old, bridging gaps between ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

Astronomers have sought to explain the existence of supermassive black holes forming less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a timescale incompatible with standard stellar evolution processes.

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Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

On the left, an artist’s impression of a globular cluster near its birth, hosting extremely massive stars with powerful stellar winds that enrich the cluster with elements processed at extremely high ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...