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These findings will help scientists understand how giant galaxies interact, collide, and merge to produce ... incredible speed of over 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h), leading to an immensely ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

"A larger number of star clusters are only 3.5 million years old ... young star clusters indicates that this galaxy was part of a recent galaxy collision and merger. "The perturbed structure ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

One possibility is that a particular pair of colliding galaxies in the southern sky, containing an orbiting pair of supermassive black holes, just happens to be closer than the others, and its ...

According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy, Andromeda. Published in Nature Astronomy, the study reveals that there may be a ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Galactic mergers play a key role in the evolution of the universe, driving the growth of larger galaxies and the overall ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...