Ring Of Fire Galaxy From 11 Billion Years Ago Discovered
An image of R5519 shows the galaxy’s unusual shape. It is a ring of stars with a hole at its center. Its mass is roughly the same as the Milky Way, but it is between 1.5 and two times larger. It is also forming stars at a rate about 50 times faster than our own galaxy. “Most of that activity is taking place on its ring—so it truly is a ring of fire,” Tiantian Yuan, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions, Australia, said in a statement....