Which stage a galaxy is in is revealed by its star formation rate. One of the study’s conclusions is that the growth rate of black holes must change as galaxies evolve from one stage to the next.

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

James Webb Space Telescope sees a celestial Venn diagram around a dying star Scientists use the JWST to study an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through the Cosmic Dark Ages ...

More information: Lingfeng Wei et al, Structure and Dynamics of the Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 1, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.16755 Journal information: arXiv ...

Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent ...

“We sort of know the basic story of star formation … but the devil is in the details,” says Mike Grudić, a theoretical astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. (SN: 4/21/20).

The Milky Way is churning out far more stars than previously thought, according to a new estimate of its star formation rate. Gamma rays from aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope that arises ...

More information: Adam Smercina et al, The Star Formation History and Evolution of the Ultra-Diffuse M81 Satellite, F8D1, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.13349 ...

The star-forming regions that surround our solar system have been mapped for the first time. These regions appear to lie on a deformed surface 1000 light years across, called the Local Bubble.

More information: Adam Smercina et al, The Star Formation History and Evolution of the Ultra-Diffuse M81 Satellite, F8D1, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.13349 Journal information: arXiv ...