What we've really been trying to do is to find the more
typical galaxies from the era about a billion years after the Big Bang.
Not exact matches
The emerging population of dim
galaxies likely outnumbers, and is strikingly different
from, the
typical bright
galaxies we know and love, challenging our conventional theories of
galaxy formation and evolution.
Typical galaxies range
from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giants with one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center of mass.
Maybe the rules are different for
galaxies, where the
typical span of a single rotation brackets the time
from the dawn of the dinosaurs to the moment you're reading this page.
Our results show that regular stellar motions,
typical of the star - forming
galaxies in the present - day Universe, were already in place about 6 billion years ago,» explains Davor Krajnović, researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and one of the authors of the now published papers describing results
from this survey.
A
typical galaxy shines with the energy
from billions of stars and is tens of thousands of light years (or more) across.
The reason is that if Cosmic rays primarily come
from outside the
galaxy, and roam the intergalactic space for very long durations (much longer than the
typical 20 Million year Be-10 age observed for the cosmic rays), then there will be a discrepancy.