Scientists witness ‘cosmic joust’ for first time

For the first time ever, astronomers may have spotted a deep space battle between two galaxies.

Astronomers are calling it a “cosmic joust.” 

It is essentially a distant snapshot of two galaxies in the process of merging into one large galaxy 11 billion light years away.

The study’s authors say after the galaxies charged toward each other, one galaxy repeatedly wielded its intense beams of radiation at the other one.