Tuesday, July 22, 2014

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 07:04 AM PDT

The discovery that many small galaxies throughout the universe do not 'swarm' around larger ones like bees do but 'dance' in orderly disc-shaped orbits is a challenge to our understanding of how the universe formed and evolved. The researchers believe the answer may be hidden in some currently unknown physical process that governs how gas flows in the universe, although, as yet, there is no obvious mechanism that can guide dwarf galaxies into narrow planes.

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