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Astronomers see cosmic ring of fire, 11 billion years ago.
BY
AMIT MALEWAR
MAY 26, 2020
An artists impression of how the ring galaxy formed. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions
Astronomers have seen a very curious object that they never saw before. They recently captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy named R5519, which lies 11 billion light-years from the Solar System.
The galaxy with the mass similar to the Milky Way, has a shape of a ring, rather like a titanic doughnut; thus astronomers dubbed it as a cosmic ring of fire. Its disclosure is set to stir up hypotheses about the earliest formation of galactic structures and how they develop.
It appears as a circle with a truly massive hole in the middle, with a diameter two billion times longer than the distance between the Earth and the Sun. In other words, it is three million times bigger than the diameter of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87.
Dr. Tiantian Yuan, from Australias ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), said, It is making stars at a rate 50 times greater than the Milky Way. Most of that activity is taking place on its ring so it truly is a ring of fire.
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https://www.techexplorist.com/astronomers-captured-super-rare-type-galaxy/32531/
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)26 May 2020
Nick Carne
Astronomers say rare galaxy will shake up a few theories.
Astronomers have observed a rare galaxy type as it existed 11 billion years ago, and this, they say, is likely to shake up theories about the earliest formation of galactic structures and how they evolve.
Shaped like a gigantic doughnut and described as a cosmic ring of fire, galaxy R5519 is roughly the mass of the Milky Way and 11 billion light-years away. Evidence suggests it is a collisional ring galaxy, which would make it the first ever located in the early Universe.
Contrary to previous predictions, this work suggests that massive collisional rings were as rare 11 Gyr ago as they are today, the researchers write in a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Our discovery offers a unique pathway for studying density waves in young galaxies, as well as constraining the cosmic evolution of spiral disks and galaxy groups.
R5519 is a very curious object, says lead researcher Tiantian Yuan from Australias ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) it looks strange and familiar at the same time.
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https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/a-cosmic-ring-of-fire-from-11-billion-years-ago/
4dog
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LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)Karadeniz
(22,270 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)New - 11 billion years ago.
We're way behind the times.