Scientists have spotted one of the most distant (and therefore the youngest) example of merging galaxies yet observed, according to new results. Continue reading Astronomers Peer Back 13 Billion Years and See Two Galaxies Colliding
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Ancient ‘Monster Galaxy’ Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way
Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what researchers expected. It’s forming stars at an absolutely incredible rate. Continue reading Ancient ‘Monster Galaxy’ Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way
This Image Captures a Black Hole in Rare Feeding Frenzy
One of the most incredible things about black holes is how much bigger they are than almost anything else out there. Now, a new image taken at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory shows that we’ve been totally wrong about how they manage to grow so large.
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