The discrepancy is even worse at the cores of the universe's
tiny dwarf galaxies, which have few ordinary stars but lots of dark matter.
Not exact matches
The newcomer, called Kks3, is a
tiny, isolated
dwarf galaxy that sits almost 7 million light - years away in the constellation Hydrus.
One repeating example of a fast radio burst has finally been pinned down to a
tiny and distant
dwarf galaxy, narrowing down its precise origin
Because
dwarf galaxies contain so few stars, this suggests that whatever is responsible for FRB 121102 has a better chance of forming in
tiny galaxies than large, spiral ones.
The findings suggest that the
dwarfs are likely
tiny leftovers of larger
galaxies that were stripped of their outer layers after colliding into other, larger
galaxies M87 and M59, respectively.
«Supermassive black holes found in two
tiny galaxies: Black holes may lurk in most ultra-compact
dwarf remnants of shredded
galaxies.»
The findings suggested that the
dwarfs were likely
tiny leftovers of larger
galaxies that were stripped of their outer layers after colliding into other, larger
galaxies.
An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250
tiny galaxies that existed only 600 - 900 million years after the Big Bang [1]-- one of the largest samples of
dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs.
My opinion is that the cleanest sites are the teeniest,
tiniest galaxies we know about —
dwarf galaxies.