You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...
What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...
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 ...
As the Large Magellanic Cloud drifts closer to the Milky Way, its newly discovered black hole may one day encounter Sagittarius A at our galaxy’s core. This video explores how black holes merge, how ...
Using early data from the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, astronomers have analyzed over one million galaxies to test a long-standing idea in astrophysics: that galaxy mergers help ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured images of a distant galaxy that is forming a peculiar cosmic structure ...