Researchers have observed that elliptical galaxies ... discovered that a reddish ring, initially thought to be an Einstein ring, was actually a second lensing galaxy. The astronomers then created ...

This was a big surprise to the research team, as quasars hosting jets are typically elliptical ... galaxies than a full merger. The large galaxy to the lower right of the quasar appears to be a ...

Jets like these are known to erupt from elliptical galaxies that have ... said in a statement. The large galaxy appears to be a ring galaxy, another telltale sign of bygone interactions, as ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...

Ring galaxies ... we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular ...

"We typically see quasars as older galaxies that have grown very massive, along with their central black holes, after going through messy mergers and have come out with an elliptical shape," said ...