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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

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

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

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

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Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...