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The photo reveals evidence of a catastrophic collision between two galaxies traveling at about 1 million mph.
The debris from this collision may be fueling quasar IRAS04505-2958, which is 3 billion light-years from Earth.
Credit: John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Mike Disney (University of Wales) and NASA/ESA
