Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes that power high-speed, ...

On Friday, to mark the second anniversary of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released a breathtaking new cosmic image of two galaxies merging together. The telescope, which launched ...

Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have announced that they have developed a new tool to find otherwise-hidden galaxy mergers in data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point ...

Three supermassive black holes igniting at once in a single system is one of the most extreme feeding frenzies the universe ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

When studying local galaxy cluster Abell 3667, Anthony Englert GS, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, noticed something unique. Connecting the brightest galaxies in two small clusters within Abell 3667 was ...

Astronomers have spotted three merging galaxies where all central black holes are actively feeding and radio bright, ...