Saturday, September 13, 2014

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Clues to how giant elliptical galaxies move

Posted: 12 Sep 2014 05:53 AM PDT

New clues to how giant elliptical galaxies move have been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Elliptical galaxies have long been considered as essentially being made up of old stars that move randomly within them, like a swarm of bees. This has been challenged in many instances in the past ten-twenty years, but giant elliptical galaxies are still considered as a nearly round and non-rotating group of old stars by astronomers.

No comments:

Post a Comment