The paper investigates the well-posedness and the existence of global attractor for a strongly damped wave equation on R N (N. It shows that when the nonlinearity g(u) is of supercritical growth p, with N +2 N −2 ≡ p * < p < p * * ≡ N +4 (N −4) + , (i) the initial value problem of the equation is well-posed and its weak solution possesses additionally partial regularity as t > 0; (ii) the related solution semigroup has a global attractor in natural energy space. By using a new double truncation method on frequency space R N rather than approximating physical space R N by a sequence of balls Ω R as usual, we break through the longstanding existed restriction on this topic for p : 1 p p * .