The cosmic megastructure, dubbed the Big Ring, has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years and is among the largest structures ever observed. It appears to be roughly the size of 15 moons in ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

A recent astronomical study has unveiled a colossal ring-shaped structure located billions of light-years from Earth. This formation, composed of galaxies and galaxy clusters that are not bound by ...

While some galaxies that are undergoing star formation at a similar rate to J0107a exist in today's universe, almost all of them are ones that are in the process of a galactic merger or collision.

This rare galactic formation, officially named LEDA 1313424, has astonished astronomers due to its record-breaking number of rings, a phenomenon never observed on such a scale.

A vast, ancient, galactic structure has been discovered in the distant universe, which is so large that it simply shouldn't exist according to current theories of cosmology.

The Big Ring is centered close to 0 on the x-axis, and spans roughly from –650 to +650, equivalent to about 1.37 billion light years across.

Another hypothesis is that galactic rings result from natural resonance phenomena.As the interstellar gas within a galaxy moves, it tends to congregate in certain regions because of gravitational ...

Alexia Lopez, the Ph.D. student who found the “Big Ring,” presented her discovery Thursday at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans.

This remarkable image, captured by Japan's Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, actually shows something much more special: an extremely rare triple-ring galaxy located about 800 million light ...

They are calling it the Big Ring – it has a diameter of 1.3 billion light-years and it is also 9.2 billion light-years away. The two are only 12 degrees apart in the sky.