New Delhi: The Subaru Telescope in Hilo, Hawaii operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has captured a spiral galaxy at a distance of 180 million years in the direction of the Virgo constellation. The galaxy is face-on from the vantage point of the Earth, that reveals its unusual structure. Like most large, evolved galaxies, the central region is suspected to harbour a supermassive black hole. There is a gap between the central core and the arms of the galaxy, resulting in a structure similar to a ring, known as a pseudoring. Astronomers do not fully understand the formation of such psuedorings.

Apart from the prominent outer psuedoring, there is a second ring-like spiral arm in the central region, giving the galaxy the unique appearance of a double-ringed struc

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