Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin
May 21, 2020Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.
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Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockwork
March 14, 2018Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are.
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