The galaxy shows several extraordinary features that may be connected with its extreme youth (we are seeing it as it was when the universe was a third of the age that it is today).

The astronomers were then asked to rate whether the galaxies showed any signs of disruption that might be consistent with a merger.

They had more or less assumed that many galaxies would show as much sixth-order activity as did their own, but that assumption was wrong.

Arp also argued that some galaxies showed unusual redshifts, and that redshifts themselves could be quantized.

The smaller galaxy shows distinct signs of active star formation at its nucleus, and "it is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one."

This galaxy shows a highly distorted disk with long tidal tails due to interactions with other galaxies, that explain why sources differ to classify it as a lenticular or spiral galaxy.

The galaxy showed like varicolored dyes poured into viscous ink, red dye and yellow and blue and green, but mostly red.

Since all large galaxies show the same characteristic, large galaxies must, according to this line of reasoning, be embedded in a halo of invisible "dark" matter.

The third galaxy (to the far left) is more compact, but shows evidence of star formation.

The galaxy of stars that blanket the country in the Guide Michelin restaurant maps showed my region of choice to be a black hole.