The first application, currently in clinical development, is to treat interstitial cystitis (IC), a painful bladder disease in women that forces them to urinate every 10 minutes.

FORBES: TARIS Biomedical Keeps Delivering Drugs Direct-to-the-Bladder

As a result of its interaction with IC 4970, one of the arms of NGC 6872 looks likes it may be spinning off to form its own dwarf galaxy.

FORBES: Astronomers Find The Largest Known Spiral Galaxy

Near it sits a lens-shaped or lenticular galaxy called IC 4970, which appears to have crashed through the spiral in recent astronomical times.

BBC: Galaxy crash sparks biggest spiral