01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
...turned out to be the earliest example of a galaxy merger that occurred less than one billion years after the...redshift, this is not only the earliest example of a merger, but also the earliest galaxy where all three of these signals (oxygen, carbon and...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... Computational Cosmology, said: "We think that up to now our galaxy has had only a few mergers with very low mass galaxies. This represents very slim pickings when compared to nearby galaxies of the same size as the Milky Way. For...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
...to collide in roughly 4.5 billion years and this titanic of mergers is likely to produce a giant elliptical galaxy. It is also expected that our galaxy “will eat” two nearby dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds sometime in the future...
30 August 2018
Unstoppable monster galaxy puzzles and enlightens astronomers
... draw detailed maps of molecular clouds is an important step that could change all of that. By observing other similar galaxies with this world-class array, the relation between galaxy mergers and monster galaxies could soon be unveiled added Tadaki
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... Journal on April 7, 2020. The paper is titled "TXS 2116-077: A gamma-ray emitting relativistic jet hosted in a galaxy merger." In addition to Paliya, who is now at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, the other Clemson authors...
07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
...density environment is suggested to show the slow formation of galaxy mergers along filamentary pathways in the voids of the cosmic web... threads and at the intersections of these filaments galaxies merge to become clusters, and then super clusters...
