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Galaxies are formed from the mergers of stellar material which result in the formation of systems of billions of stars, gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. It has been shown that under appropriate conditions, the process of gravitational collapse within a gaseous cloud, the cloud, or some part of it becomes unstable and begins to collapse if it lacks sufficient gaseous pressure support to balance the force of gravity. The cloud is stable for sufficiently small mass (at a given temperature and radius), but once the Jeans mass (a critical mass) is exceeded, the cloud begins a process of runaway contraction until an external unbalanced force can impedes the collapse. \cite{Loeb_2010} states that when an object above the Jeans mass collapses, the dark matter forms a halo inside of which the collapsed matter cools, condense to the center of the dark matter halo, and eventually form stars. Dark matter is weakly interacting and is thus unable to cool. Consequently the emergent structure of a galaxy becomes one in which a central core that is occupied by stars and cold gas which is enclosed by dark matter. \cite{Loeb_2010} further states that a centrifugal force associated with the rotation of the galaxy’s center prevents the gas from collapsing into the center and forming a black hole. The gas later forms stars and a galaxy is born.  Radiative cooling, star formation and supernova explosions processes that are also integral to the formation of a galaxy while processes such as accretion of gas, and galaxy mergers, govern the galaxy’s structure. These sets of processes together drive the formation and evolution of galaxies \cite{Ceverino_2009}.  Dark matter halos grow in hierarchy in the sense that larger halos are formed through the merging of smaller predecessors. Figure 2 illustrates the formation of a dark matter halo. From this hierarchical model, it can been seen that present formation and evolution of galaxies has its roots in the Big Bang. Fanaroff and Riley classification of radio galaxies groups them into two major categories FR-I and FR-II. The two categories are based on whether radio-galaxies have edge-darkened (FR-I) morphologies or edge-brightened (FR-II) morphologies. (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.6893v1.pdf) believes that these morphologies arose from the interaction of jets (as depicted in Figure 4)and the material in their surrounding environment. Spectroscopy observations further reveal that FR-I radio galaxy hosts exhibit optical spectra with only absorption lines, while FR-II hosts display mixed characteristics. Some FR-II hosts are similar to FR-Is in that they only exhibit absorption lines ,but some others have spectra with strong high ionization emission lines.  (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0667v3.pdf) states that the morphology of galaxies is closely related to their luminosities. It is said that Fanaroff and Rilley noted that the morphology of radio galaxies is dependent on their luminosities. Since luminosity is in turn related to redshift, it is easy to confuse the effects due to luminosity as those due to redshift. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0667v3.pdf further discovered that FR-I and FR-II morphology is dependent only on luminosity and not redshift. Fanaroff and Riley observed that the luminosity of FR-I galaxies falls below a threshold luminosity$ 2 \times 1025 W Hz^{-1}sr^{−1}$ .