A team of researchers has accidentally found two galaxies that were hidden from view sitting at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer at the Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, and the … Read More
Monsters lurk in the cores of all galaxies: supermassive black holes millions or billions of times the mass of our Sun. And as galaxies merge, so, too, do these black holes, which gradually approach each other over millions of years. … Read More
Imaged by the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, the galaxies NGC 5394 (the smaller one, on the right) and NGC 5395 (the larger one, on the left) are in the middle of colliding over the span of millions of years. It … Read More
NASA’s latest image of the Milky Way is two decades in the making. The dramatic view of the heart of the galaxy combines 370 observations taken over a period of 20 years and features billions of stars. “What we see in the … Read More
Scientists have long been aware of the fact that galaxies are growing in volume when they swallow up other, smaller galaxies. This process is part of the cosmic evolution. Evidence of this is the cosmic auras (halo) in which … Read More