Researchers find ten billion-year old “ghost stars” from swallowed galaxy
Published 10 June 2022 Two galaxies merging (Illustration: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva) Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found a group of stars in the Milky Way disk, that are most likely remnants from an unknown baby galaxy that was swallowed by the Milky Way over 10 billion years ago. Nothing like it has been discovered in the galaxy disk before. Af
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-find-ten-billion-year-old-ghost-stars-swallowed-galaxy - 2025-01-12