Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which ...

These black holes drive the formation and evolution of a galaxy, ... his team used JWST to report the discovery of a massive ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe.

Nushkia Chamba is a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center who specializes in studying the outskirts of galaxies, as well as galaxy formation and evolution in general. Here, she helps ...

Astronomers call the cessation of star formation in a galaxy "quenching," and SAGA's findings directly connect quenching to the environment around the host galaxy.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Quenching as a Contest between Galaxy Halos and Their Central Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal , 2020; 897 (1): 102 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9633 Cite This Page : ...