Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify
a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.
Not exact matches
In one model of
galaxy formation, large black holes
already existed; then, gas spiraling into each hole powered quasars, while more
distant gas collapsed inward over billions of years to form the
galaxy's stars.
«The fact that we see young
galaxies in the
distant universe that have
already shut down star formation is remarkable.»
Star Wars fans shouldn't miss another chance to head back to the
distant galaxy, and Battlefront fans will find a lot more of what they
already like.