Wednesday 18 March 2009

Hearts Of Galaxies Close In For Cosmic Train Wreck


A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun. The galactic cores are in a single, tangled galaxy [...] located in the constellation Ophiuchus.

Source:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-050

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