Galaxy 3C 297 seems to have destroyed its neighbors, which researchers claim would make it the most distant galaxy of its kind they have observed.
, essentially having cannibalized its neighbors.
“It seems that we have a galaxy cluster that is missing almost all of its galaxies. We expected to see at least a dozen galaxies about the size of the Milky Way, yet we only see one,” says Valentina Missaglia of the University of Torino in Italy, the lead author on the newly publishedA possible explanation for what happened to the “missing galaxies” is that the gravitational pull of the largest galaxy contributed to the smaller companion galaxies to “fall and be assimilated by the alpha.
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