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 ...

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Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...

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 the most distant and brightest "space laser," or megamaser, ever seen, and it's blasting out from a collision between galaxies that occurred when the universe was just half ...

Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence of a close quasar pair housed in a pair of merging galaxies seen when the universe was less ...

In this 2012 visualization, the Andromeda galaxy (left) appears in Earth's skies and begins to distort the Milky Way as the two galaxies merge. This hypothetical scenario was previously expected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BCGs are the ultra-massive galaxies anchoring the centers of galaxy clusters. They're thought to grow through hierarchical merging ...

Six interacting galaxies spotted 12 billion light-years away hint at how the universe’s largest galactic structures first assembled Al is a long time tech writer with a penchant for all things nerdy.