Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole can slowly starve a galaxy rather than tear it apart. The researchers, led ...

Astronomers have found the biggest "dead" galaxy from the universe's early days that stopped growing not because of a single cataclysmic event, but because its central black hole slowly cut off its ...

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New Delhi: Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest ‘dead’ galaxies known, designated as GS-10578. (Image Credit: University of Cambridge). that formed about three billion years after the Big Bang.

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from Cambridge studied over 250 galaxies and found most were turbulent, still forming ...