Hearts of galaxies close in for cosmic train wreck

Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 12:42 in Astronomy & Space

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 called NGC 6240, located 400-million light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus...

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