Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a ...

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

According to their study published on arXiv, a team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery of an ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and ...

Closest Quasar: This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and ...

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The larger elliptical galaxy is pulling material from a smaller neighboring galaxy, distorting its spiral arms. In turn, the teased strands of interstellar material fuels new star formation in the ...

Hubble's recent capture, MCG+05-31-045 in the Coma cluster, illustrates the evolution of galaxies under extreme gravitational forces. This interaction, typical for dense galaxy clusters, demonstrates ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

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