Discovered: Fast-growing galaxies from early universe
May 24, 2017
A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Eduardo Bañados and led by Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a new kind of galaxy which, although extremely old—formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang—creates stars more than a hundred times faster than our own Milky Way.
Their findings are published by Nature.
The team's discovery could help solve a cosmic puzzle—a mysterious population of surprisingly massive galaxies from when the universe was only about 10 percent of its current age.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-fast-growing-galaxies-early-universe.html#jCp
