[ad_1] In a discovery that sounds straight out of science fiction, astronomers have spotted a galaxy shaped like the infinity symbol and nestled in its luminous heart may be the first directly observed newborn supermassive black hole. This cosmic twist was uncovered by a team led by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum, who dubbed the […]
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[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing two galaxies plunging into one another in a galactic merger. The galactic merger is named IC 1623 and lies around 270 million light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus. Starburst caused by galactic merger By colliding […]
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[ad_1] The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope has captured an image of a spectacular galactic collision. NGC 7727, a massive galaxy, was created from an event that started around a billion years ago: the merger of two galaxies. And at the centre of NGC 7727 lies the closest pair of supermassive black holes […]
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[ad_1] The Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i captured this brilliant image of a pair of spiral galaxies interacting as they clash and merge into each other. NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) are entangled in their mutual gravitational fields and should eventually combine to form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years. […]
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