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Sources:
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013-24
https://astrobites.org/2013/04/14/digging-up-red-nuggets-in-local-elliptical-galaxies/
http://chandra.si.edu/press/18_releases/press_062118.html
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit4/types.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20140629115612/
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/galaxies.php
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Images:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/mrk1216/more.html
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0501a/
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1000a/
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1508a/
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1318a/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11149