Astronomers spot 'missing link' collision : a supermassive galaxy 10 X the size of the milky way.

[dipsydoodle]

Astronomers spot 'missing link' collision creating a supermassive galaxy ten times the size of the Milky Way.

Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered.

Researchers say the groundbreaking discovery is 'the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds', and sheds new light on how the Universe formed.

The new mega-galaxy, dubbed HXMM01, 'is the brightest, most luminous and most gas-rich submillimeter-bright galaxy merger known,' the authors write in Nature.

Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare, the team said,

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2329173/Astronomers-spot-missing-link-galaxy-collision-creating-supermassive-galaxy-times-size-Milky-Way.html#ixzz2U4W2vNly

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. All sorts of new discoveries in space happening this month.

Amazing.

[kristopher]

2. "...are rapidly forming a massive galaxy".

Rapidly?

That's not a word I'd have considered.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Well, in celestial terms it fits....

[Fumesucker]

4. Hungry Young Galaxies

A cosmic soap opera.

Or a nerdish garage band.