This is as close to a smoking gun as we’re likely ever going to get, Yale University’s Pieter van Dokkum announced, after his team made their find in the Infinity galaxy a cosmic feature whose ...

How did supermassive black holes come to be? Astronomers have two hypotheses for their formation, and now one of them might have gotten the first tantalizing piece of direct evidence. Researchers ...

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 two ...

NEW HAVEN — A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive black hole. The newborn black hole is believed to have formed at ...