12 August 2020
Distant Milky Way look-alike is a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation
...past processes of our Universe. “This result represents a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation, showing that the structures that we observe in nearby spiral galaxies and in our Milky Way were already in place 12 billion years ago,” concludes...
07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
... – this highly unusual system in an extremely low density environment is suggested to show the slow formation of galaxy mergers along filamentary pathways in the voids of the cosmic web. The cosmic web can be thought of as just ...
01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... the distant Universe." Mergers are essential not only for star formation and galaxy evolution, but they also help unravel the evolution of the ...circulation and accumulation of elements and material in the context of galaxy formation and evolution."
16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
...published in Nature. Then, using a sophisticated mapping method, galaxies within it were divided into two regions on either side ... of the project at the AIP. "On these scales the galaxies within them are themselves just specs of dust. They move ...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... and anisotropies of electric charges. Theory suggests that the amplification of this ‘seed’ field, for example via galaxy formation, mergers, accretion flows and supernovae explosions, as well as the feedback associated with all these processes...
29 January 2018
Astronomers discover a fossil of the Reionisation era
... Way for instance. Researchers are therefore keen to find examples of the very earliest dwarf galaxies in order to help refine theories of galaxy formation and evolution. And now, a team of astronomers from Spain and Italy, have found what...
