The Milky Way Started Eating Other Galaxies Billions of Years Earlier Than We Thought, New Study Says

Our galactic home, the Milky Way galaxy, was a hungry fella several eons ago. Scientists observing clusters of stars hanging out near the Milky Way’s center found evidence suggesting that our galaxy once collided with and devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago. The findings, published in Nature Astronomy and detailed on NASA’s…