A massive hole in the starlight at the center of a giant galaxy may be the scar left behind by two colliding supermassive ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last month when scientists announced new ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that ancient galaxies lived fast and died young because of intense, collision-driven winds.
NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity. This event was captured with ...
Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope report that a massive galaxy from the early universe shows no sign of ...
VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the ...
New data confirm that the titanic collisions of galaxies ignite the most powerful active galactic nuclei. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are phases in which supermassive black holes at the centre of ...