Scientists have found a rare galaxy with nine circular rings, something never clearly seen before. It looks like a cosmic bullseye, so it’s been nicknamed the Bullseye Galaxy.
Most galaxies only show two or three rings. This one has nine, making it extremely rare and exciting for astronomers.
Images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed the galaxy’s unique ring structure.
Rings can form when galaxies collide. One galaxy crashes through another, causing waves that push gas and dust outward in ring shapes—just like ripples when a stone is thrown into water.
It is about 930 million light-years away from Earth.
GLSB means Giant Low Surface Brightness galaxy. These galaxies are very faint and hard to detect. They are big but spread out, with very little visible light.
They may help us understand the early universe. Because they are so faint, they are thought to have evolved slowly, keeping their ancient features.
It may be a GLSB galaxy that was hit by another galaxy, which created the ring structure and made it more visible. Its central black hole is also smaller than expected.
Not yet. It is still a theory. Some think the rings formed when two faint galaxies collided, disturbing gas and stars and creating waves that formed rings.
It shows that space is still full of surprises. Strange galaxies like this may be more common than we thought but are just very hard to see. “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” – J.B.S. Haldane
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