Cosmic ring of fire

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Cosmic ring of fire Cosmic ring of fire 29/05/2020 | 3 MINS A LIT scientist is part of a global team of astronomers that have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy ΓÇô described as a ΓÇ£cosmic ring of fireΓÇ¥ ΓÇô as it existed 11 billion years ago. The galaxy named R5519, which has roughly the mass of the Milky Way, is circular with a hole in the middle, rather like a titanic doughnut. Its discovery, announced in the journal Nature Astronomy, is set to shake up theories about the earliest formation of galactic structures and how they evolve. LIT scientist Dr Ahmed Elagali, who is based at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia, said studying R5519 would help determine when spiral galaxies began to develop. ΓÇ£Constraining the number density of ring galaxies through cosmic time can also be used to put constraints on the assembly and evolution of local-like galaxy groups,ΓÇ¥ he said. R5519, is 11 billion light-years from the Solar System. The hole at its centre is truly massive, with a diameter two

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Cosmic ring of fire Cosmic ring of fire 29/05/2020 | 3 MINS A LIT scientist is part of a global team of astronomers that have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy ΓÇô described as a ΓÇ£cosmic ring of fireΓÇ¥ ΓÇô as it existed 11 billion years ago.

The galaxy named R5519, which has roughly the mass of the Milky Way, is circular with a hole in the middle, rather like a titanic doughnut.

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