War has been declared between two galaxies, and the future doesn’t look good for the underdog: The larger galaxy’s powerful jet of high-energy radiation and matter is hitting its helpless neighbor. Ambulance-chasing astronomers hope to take advantage of this cosmic drive-by shooting to learn more about the nature of such jets, which usually spurt into empty space.
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