Spirals are only one of four major classifications for galaxies; the others are elliptical, irregular and peculiar. Elliptical galaxies would be better called spheroidal; they can be spherical but ...

Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It hosts an enormous supermassive black hole that ...

These FRBs, named FRB 20240209A, are located outside of the massive ancient elliptical galaxy it is associated with that only contains old and dead stars, Shah said. Using the James Webb Space ...

Schematic diagram shows how spheroid formation occurs in distant submillimeter-bright galaxies, and how this process connects to the evolution of giant elliptical galaxies in today’s Universe. On the ...

A study published in Nature details the process that spawned immense galaxies, which could help unravel the evolution of the universe since the beginning of time. Exploring the Origins of Elliptical ...

Also on this copper engraving are 26 figures of geomentrical measurements relating to the solar system, such as the inclination and elliptical orbit ... and evolution of stars, galaxy and Universe ...

But other spiral galaxies are surprisingly rare along this gigantic plane, while bright elliptical galaxies are far more common. Now, astronomers suggest this is because a violent history of ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals NGC 547, an elliptical galaxy that sits about 250 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. NGC 547 shines just below the ...

Much discussion has surrounded how lenticular galaxies may form a bridging ... built lenticular galaxies contiguous with elliptical galaxies and ‘brightest cluster galaxies’ in the black hole/galaxy ...

A photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87 [left] is compared to its three-dimensional shape as gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes [right]. Because the ...

Tuning-fork style diagram of the Hubble sequence ... that’s doing all the cool things of this age. Meanwhile, elliptical galaxies have a lot of old and heavy stars, with less dust than spirals ...

spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long and thin, and lenticular galaxies which are somewhat halfway between the two. But some galaxies are oddities that don’t fit ...