All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin 21/05/2020 | 1 MIN Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang ΓÇô 1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies. The research has fuelled debate about how galaxies in the early Universe assembled. The observations were made using one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. ΓÇ£This is an exciting discovery for astronomers because it provides clues as to how large-scale structure began to form in the Universe,ΓÇ¥ said Dr Alfred Tiley from the LIT node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). According to our current understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation follows a hierarchical order. First, dark matter ΓÇÿhaloesΓÇÖ are though
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin 21/05/2020 | 1 MIN Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang ΓÇô 1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.
The research has fuelled debate about how galaxies in the early Universe assembled.
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The observations were made using one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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ΓÇ£This is an exciting discovery for astronomers because it provides clues as to how large-scale structure began to form in the Universe,ΓÇ¥ said Dr Alfred Tiley from the LIT node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
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According to our current understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation follows a hierarchical order.
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