{"id":78026,"date":"2018-04-24T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/astronomers-witness-a-galactic-megamerger-from-the-beginning-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:42:38","slug":"astronomers-witness-a-galactic-megamerger-from-the-beginning-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/astronomers-witness-a-galactic-megamerger-from-the-beginning-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Witness a Galactic \u201cMegamerger\u201d from the Beginning of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-witness-a-galactic-megamerger-from-the-beginning-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international astronomers managed to observe 14 individual galaxies about to undergo an \u201cmegamerger\u201d and become one humongous galaxy. This cataclysmic, yet formative process of our universe gives researchers the ability to see how celestial structures formed not too long after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/44069-galactic-megamerger-beginning-universe\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/44069-galactic-megamerger-beginning-universe<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international astronomers managed to observe 14 individual galaxies about to undergo an \u201cmegamerger\u201d and become one humongous galaxy. This cataclysmic, yet formative process of our universe gives researchers the ability to see how celestial structures formed not too long after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}