The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 shows a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million miles ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Cosmic Bullseye, Found to Be a Galaxy With Star-Filled Rings Astronomers observed a unique image of a galactic collision between galaxies which created a ...

This discovery opens a new window into understanding galactic collisions and dark matter. These rings, the result of a cosmic collision, offer scientists a rare opportunity to study galaxy dynamics ...

The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424, lies approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s plentiful rings.

The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...