Sentences with phrase «galactic disks form»
Mature galactic disks form later, composed of many star - forming regions at 50 — 100 parsec in size.
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The study appears to vindicate predictions from theorists such as Mark Morris, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who in 1993 penned a key paper predicting tens of thousands of stellar - mass black holes would form a disk around the galactic center.
It will not work for galactic disks, however, like the spiral that forms our Milky Way.
«If so, it's likely that planets will eventually form from this material, as is the case for young stars in the galactic disk.»
The thick disk is generally formed of old stars that may lie several thousand light - years (ly) above or below the galactic plane, unlike thin disk stars such as Sol which typically lie within a thousand ly.
The rotating disks attracted more gas and dust with gravity and formed galactic disks.