Researchers associated with the study claimed that they spotted this 'cannibalism' in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, Sextans dwarf spheroidal. This satellite galaxy has been determined ...

explains that in time, galactic cannibalism will occur when the Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light years away and is charging toward our galaxy. displays a simulation of what might occur to the ...

Dwarf galaxies, small yet mighty, are the most common galaxies in the universe—and crucial to understanding the growth of cosmic giants. Some galaxies had ghostly streaks of light near their ...