Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have announced that they have developed a new tool to find otherwise-hidden galaxy mergers in data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes that power high-speed, ...

On Friday, to mark the second anniversary of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released a breathtaking new cosmic image of two galaxies merging together. The telescope, which launched ...

When studying local galaxy cluster Abell 3667, Anthony Englert GS, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, noticed something unique. Connecting the brightest galaxies in two small clusters within Abell 3667 was ...

Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During those collisions, the supermassive black holes that sit at the center of ...

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these galaxies indicate that the merger will form a monster galaxy, one of the ...

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What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

All massive galaxies are believed to host supermassive black holes millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. When galaxies merge — which we know they do, and frequently — it seems a foregone ...