"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." ...

The remaining nine stars, however, appear to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud. And together, they suggest ejection via the Hills Mechanism by an object that weighs around 600,000 solar ...

Once the Large Magellanic Cloud collides with the Milky Way, its black hole will drift toward Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s central black hole. Eventually, these two massive black holes will ...

Researchers believe the SMC is being pulled by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC is SMC’s much bigger companion. The team says this gravitational tug could be slowly tearing the SMC apart.