Using the Gemini North Telescope located near the Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii, the team behind the research spotted galactic cannibalism in action near the Virgo Cluster, a large grouping of thousands of galaxies relatively nearby to Earth.

These small galaxies were shredded by their larger siblings — but they survived

Source: space
Source Link: https://www.space.com/ultra-compact-dwarf-galaxies-cannibalism-study