The placid appearance of NGC 4889 can fool the unsuspecting observer. But the elliptical galaxy, pictured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, harbours a dark secret. At its ...
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There's an optical illusion in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Credit: ESA / NASA / H. Nayyeri / L. Marchetti / J. Lowenthal When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical ...
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...