Galaxy Interactions
Hubble Sees a Bridge of Stars Connecting Two Galaxies
The poetic-minded among us like to point out how Nature is a dance. If they're right, then galaxies sometimes form…
10 months ago
The JWST Discovers a Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers working with the JWST found a dwarf galaxy they weren't looking for. It's about 98 million years away, has…
10 months ago
A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera,…
3 years ago
Determining The Galaxy Collision Rate
[/caption] Big galaxies... Little galaxies... But how often do they meet? Thanks to information from some of the latest Hubble…
13 years ago
Galaxy Interactions Could Cause Overweight Black Holes
[/caption] Yep. It's true. Almost all galaxies are guilty of having a supermassive black hole in their centers. Some even…
13 years ago