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  1. 2 nearby galaxies form 'blood-soaked eyes,' NASA says: See video

    Nov 4, 2024 · Two far-away galaxies have been described as “blood-soaked eyes” by NASA after the Hubble and James Webb Space telescopes captured an intriguing video of the two colliding galaxies.

  2. What Happens When Galaxies Collide? Hubble Space

    May 25, 1993 · NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has discovered a new population of exceptionally bright and young star clusters at the heart of a head-on collision between two galaxies. …

  3. Two colliding galaxies may have birthed this black hole

    Jul 29, 2025 · In the middle of a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol — thought to be the result of two galaxies colliding — sits a supermassive black hole. The enormous celestial body may have emerged...

  4. What Happens When Galaxies Collide? | Astronomy.com

    Jul 1, 2019 · Mergers between galaxies of similar size lead to significant disruption, including the ejection of matter, intense star formation triggered by compressed gas clouds, and substantial …

  5. Jaw-Dropping Galactic Crash: Webb’s Epic Snapshot of a Cosmic Merger

    Sep 19, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of Arp 107, two galaxies locked in a slow-motion collision 450 million light-years away. This breathtaking view …

  6. Astronomers Capture a Cosmic Joust Between Two Colliding Galaxies

    May 21, 2025 · For the first time, astronomers have observed how quasar radiation directly disrupts the inner gas of another galaxy during a merger, essentially halting that galaxy’s ability to create new …

  7. These two galaxies are tying the knot and producing stars

    2 days ago · Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient progenitors of galaxies like ours were small galaxies similar …

  8. Glowing bridge links dwarf galaxies in stunning new image from the ...

    2 days ago · A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams of newborn stars and the ongoing gravitational tug-of-war …

  9. Does everything get smashed to bits when two galaxies collide?

    Jun 25, 2024 · When astronomers say that two galaxies are colliding, they mean that the two galaxies are moving toward each other and are progressively occupying the same region of space.

  10. What Really Happens When Two Galaxies Collide - MSN

    What Really Happens When Two Galaxies CollideStory by Hannah Frey • 2d 1 / 10 ©Wikimedia