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Duo of Titanic Galaxies Captured in Extreme Starbursting Merger

Duo of Titanic Galaxies Captured in Extreme Starbursting Merger

New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have uncovered the never-before-seen close encounter between two astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies in the early universe. These so-called hyper-luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when...