Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.
Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
One of the most spectacular encounters of Hubble with a galaxy has been brought back into focus by a recent image posted on X ...
Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...
In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...
Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve. When ...
Some galaxies in the early universe were absolute powerhouses, churning out stars at rates that would dwarf the Milky Way's ...