An international research team from Australia, America, Canada and Denmark was able to take a picture of a very rare cosmic state represented in a type of ring galaxy that has been commonly called the "cosmic ring of fire", which may contribute to achieving a better understanding of the evolution of galaxies in a very early period in the history of the universe , Only about three billion years from its inception.
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To reach the previous result, the research team used the Telescope "Keck Observatory", which are located at an altitude of about four kilometers at the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, USA, and the diameter of a mirror each of 10 meters, making them the largest optical telescopes in the world.
In addition to the data from the Keck Observatory, the research team used images from the Hubble telescope to confirm their findings on the final shape of the new ring galaxy called "R5519" (R5519).
According to the study on this disclosure, which was published in the journal "Astronomical" on May 24 this year, the new galaxy is about 11 billion light years away from us, and the diameter of its gap is equal to two billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun.
The results also indicated that the rates of formation of new stars in this galaxy are 50 times higher than the rates in our Milky Way galaxy, and this is understandable because the galaxies at the beginning of the universe were more active than now.
The secret of cosmic rings
The importance of the new study stems from the observation that this rare type of galaxy - called collisional ring galaxy - was formed due to the collision of previous galaxies that had thin rings similar to those of our Milky Way.
Consequently, this means that this type of thin Hungarian layer could have formed earlier than scientists had previously imagined.
The Milky Way galaxy, for example, formed its first layers only 9 billion years ago, and thus this detection modifies the physical models known today.
Despite all that we know so far about annular galaxies, they are still one of the most confusing secrets in cosmology.
In fact, researchers in this range have discovered many of them around us, such as the famous "Hoge" galaxy, as well as the "sail" galaxy and the "wheel cart" galaxy, but they are modern galaxies, as it is very rare to observe this type of galaxy in the early universe.
This international research team hopes that the new data will contribute to developing our understanding of how galaxies originated from the beginning of the universe, which will consequently improve our knowledge of the warm history of our galaxy, the Milky Way.