Two galaxies have been seen merging 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Universe was born
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How collisions between galaxies can lead to their demise
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescopes has been watching galactic collisions unfold and understand what it means for their future
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The event that changed the Milky Way
ESA’s Gaia found evidence in the night sky that points to the fact our galaxy did not form alone
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Merging galaxies halt star formation
Analysis of the ‘butterfly’ galaxy NGC 6240 shows black hole ejections and stellar winds stop the birth of new stars
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Astronomers discover multiple supermassive black hole pairings
Fewer than ten of these double gigantic high-gravity objects were known previously
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Astronomers use the dance of galaxies to see how they merge
The galactic version of David and Goliath, reveal how these gigantic structures coalesce
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Astronomers detect orbiting supermassive black holes
This detection of miniature orbital motion could be the missing evidence in the galaxy formation theory