As­tro­no­mers have found a math­e­mat­i­cal prin­ci­ple that they say sur­pris­ing­ly fits all gal­ax­ies, from the state­ly spi­ral-shaped ones to the messy “train wrecks.” This could re­veal some­thing deep about the evo­lu­tion of the un­i­verse, they claim.

In a new study us­ing the W.M. Keck Ob­serv­a­to­ry in Ha­waii, the sci­en­tists found that this com­mon­al­i­ty has linked all galax­ies for eight bil­lion years, near­ly half the age of the Uni­vers [ Visit Website ]