"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

The mission uncovered evidence of past galactic mergers, identified new star clusters, contributed to the discovery of exoplanets and black holes, mapped millions of quasars and galaxies ...

During its 10-year operation Gaia collected data on evidence of past galactic mergers, identified new star clusters and mapped millions of quasars and galaxies. Related Europe's Gaia probe ...

They think that a now rogue supermassive black hole originated from this galaxy, kicked out of its original location after a galactic merger brought two supermassive black holes too close together.

They also detected a radio signal they believe to be the relic of a galactic merger between Abel 1213’s central galaxy and another galaxy. However, this relic does not appear to be the cause of ...