A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 taken with Hubble Space Telescope. This small, flattened galaxy contains one of the most massive central black holes ever found. At 17 billion solar masses ...

The Hubble Classification, also known as the Hubble Sequence, is a widely recognized method for systematically categorizing ...

The new tail was serendipitously identified in DECaLS images, in an isolated environment associated with NGC 3785—a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo. "We have discovered an ...

Still, the 45 000 light-year-long galaxy could be classified as an S0 type. These lenticular galaxies are an intermediate state in galaxy morphological classification schemes between true spiral ...

SBa types feature tightly bound arms, while SBc types are at the other extreme and have loosely bound arms. SBb-type galaxies lie in between the two. SB0 is a barred lenticular galaxy. A new type, SBm ...

This category includes both spiral and lenticular galaxies. The shape of a disk galaxy resembles a flat disk of tens or hundreds of billions of stars. This range includes the Milky Way and its ...