Under 'dark halo' old galaxies have many more stars
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 21:30
in Astronomy & Space
Some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe have three times more stellar mass, and so many more stars, than all current models of galaxy evolution predict.
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