Birth of the first galaxies (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science

Birth of the first galaxies

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Gas that accumulate and accrete onto a mini-galaxy in the process of being built. While this is how galaxies are formed according to theories and computer simulations, it had never actually been witnessed

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Illustration: NASA

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