The schematic artistic view of the Cosmic Owl, consisting of twin collisional ring galaxies with binary AGN. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10058 An international team of astronomers ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

In the vastness of the Universe, certain galactic encounters create astonishing shapes. An international team has observed a galaxy merger forming a structure resembling the face of an owl. This ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that morphologically resemble an owl's face. The discovery of this galaxy merger, dubbed ...