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 ...

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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 ...

"Clearly there is something interesting going on." The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last year, and it showcases several galaxies that inhabit a pocket of our universe roughly ...

"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 ...

Its unusual shape is caused by the gravitational pull of a nearby smaller galaxy. NGC 1275: Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 1275, showcasing reddish filaments suspended around the ...

also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 2865, shown here in an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is an elliptical galaxy located 100 million ...

B: A bright star cloud in Andromeda called NGC 206. C ... One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. But that great merger won't happen for ...

these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular galaxies. But only 1 out of 10,000 falls into this super rare category, Siegel says.

and redshifted elliptical galaxies that have been uncovered over the past several decades. Using the interactive map of the universe, you can actually scroll through to the edge of what we see.