The Hubble telescope captures the image of 3 galaxies merging

An amazing astronomical phenomenon is taking place in the universe recorded by the Hubble telescope.

On February 17, the US Space Agency (NASA) released images from the Hubble telescope, capturing the scene of three galaxies located in the constellation Boötes merging . This process will eventually create a larger galaxy.

Image of 3 galaxies merging by the Hubble telescope. (Photo: NASA).

"The triple collision - dubbed by astronomers SDSSCGB 10189 - is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies, located just 50,000 light-years apart ," said NASA scientists. said.

This number sounds pretty far away, however, for galaxies, it's close. Our neighboring galaxies are much farther away. Andromeda, the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

Galactic collisions occur when 2 or more galaxies come close. This is not a rare phenomenon in the universe. The results of these giant collisions can vary. They can merge to form a new, larger galaxy, as was the case with the Hubble telescope, or a galaxy destroying another.

The stars from each galaxy are unlikely to collide with each other due to the great distance between them. The center of most galaxies contains a supermassive black hole, and the merger of these giant monsters can create gravitational waves and send stars flying in the wrong direction.

Normally, if a large galaxy collides with a smaller galaxy, the large galaxy will take away stars and matter from the small galaxy and keep most of its shape. In other cases, the massive gravity involved in the collision could stretch one or both galaxies into strange shapes.

Our Earth-containing galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years. This collision may also be related to the nearby Triangulum galaxy.

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