Lying 90 million light-years away in Aquarius, two galaxies in the midst of a cosmic merger were recently studied using the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. Astrophysicists captured streams of swirling gas and dust in NGC 7727, a peculiar galaxy containing two supermassive black holes separated by 1,600 light-years. The result is a mixture ofContinue reading "NGC 7727’s cosmic merger foreshadows our own future"
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