Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was able to sort through images of a million galaxies to find those possessing a so-called active galactic nucleus, or AGN.

The results come courtesy of the Euclid space telescope, which is a European Space Agency mission that's designed to study dark matter and dark energy by measuring and mapping billions of galaxies. Researchers took a "small" subset of a million of the galaxies Euclid is charting and used them to chronicle the causes of AGN.

An AGN describes a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that suddenly begins consuming vast amounts of material. That material cannot all f

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