The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy ...

Astronomers caught a brutal act of cosmic violence for the first time—one galaxy piercing another with deadly radiation.

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

Observations show a stronger galaxy piercing a weaker one with a lance of radiation, reducing its star-making ability.

The quasar’s radiation is stripping away gas in its companion galaxy, leaving behind clumps too compact to form new stars.

As one galaxy smashed into the other, the winner pieced its cosmic victim, leaving behind a high level of radiation in a ...

Astronomers have captured the spectacle of two galaxies on a collision course, akin to knights in a joust, seen as they were 11.4 billion years ago. This is marked by a quasar from one galaxy ...

For a supermassive black hole to turn into a quasar, something must bring material for it to feed on near to it. This is ...

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...