For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...
"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...
These FRBs, named FRB 20240209A, are located outside of the massive ancient elliptical galaxy it is associated with that only contains old and dead stars, Shah said. Using the James Webb Space ...
Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical ... Kuiper Belt—A donut-shaped region of comets in orbit beyond Neptune, assumed to be the oldest surviving remnant of the original ...
Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt ...