Sentences with phrase «whole central bulge»

Along with these complex stellar characteristics are those of our Milky Way; the whole central bulge rotates around the galactic centre.

Not exact matches

They found that the mass in the central bulge (regardless of how big the disk surrounding it may be) is the key to knowing the colour of the whole galaxy.

Team member Erica Nelson, of Yale University, added: «These galaxies show us the whole Milky Way grew at the same time, unlike more massive elliptical galaxies, in which the central bulge forms first.»