Ancient clash with 'Kraken' galaxy 12 billion years ago helped form Milky Way
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- 17 Aug, 14:58Ancient clash with 'Kraken' galaxy 12 billion years ago helped form Milky Way1 outlet
- 18 Aug, 09:00The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago3 outlets
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Mon, 17 August 2026
3 reports- ABC News (Australia)14:58
A new study suggests one of the most significant clashes in the history of the Milky Way, dubbed the "Low-energy-Kraken-Heracles" merger, happened 12 billion years ago.
- ABC (Spain)15:51
Nuestra galaxia, la Vía Láctea, no es en absoluto el lugar pacífico que aparenta ser. Su historia, por el contrario, está escrita golpe a golpe, encontronazo a encontronazo, con una violencia extrema . Y es que, como un gigantesco 'depredador' espacial, la Vía Láctea ha crecido a lo largo de eones a base de despedazar, devorar y asimilar a sus vecinas más pequeñas. Es lo que los astrónomos conocen como 'canibalismo galáctico', el verdadero motor arquitectónico del Universo.Hasta ahora, sabíamos...
- Google News - Top Stories23:05first to report
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago The Conversation Evidence of a massive accretion event 1.8 billion years before the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger Nature How an ancient collision with another galaxy transformed the Milky Way Space Two giant clashes made the Milky Way the massive galaxy it is today ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Milky Way's center holds the ruins of another ancient galaxy Mashable
Tue, 18 August 2026
3 reports- Channel News Asia09:00
- Google News - Top Stories09:01
The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago Reuters The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage Galaxy IFLScience Evidence of a massive accretion event 1.8 billion years before the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger Nature Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago The Conversation How an ancient collision with another galaxy transformed...
- South China Morning Post10:30
The Milky Way, a large and spiral-shaped galaxy that is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its current dimensions, as illustrated by new research documenting a milestone event early in its history. Scientists observing clusters of stars congregated near the Milky Way’s centre have discovered evidence that our galaxy swallowed a smaller galaxy roughly 11.8 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 15 per cent of...