Astronomers have found a group of galaxies that communicate with each other — Science and IT

Dwarf galaxies show signs of tidal interactions — their gravitational forces affect each other, changing the shapes of the galaxies.

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare group of five dwarf galaxies that are interacting with each other at a distance of approximately 117 million light years from Earth.

The results of this discovery were published on November 19 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the Daily Mail reports.

Dwarf galaxies, in contrast to ordinary galaxies, have a much lower mass and luminosity, since they contain only a few billion stars, while in standard galaxies there are hundreds of billions.

Recently discovered galaxies have a blue color, are rich in gas and actively form new stars. They were designated as D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5. Particular attention was drawn to galaxies D3 and D4, which show signs of tidal interactions — their…