Press Release | 04.30.2008
Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe
DATE: 04.30.2008
A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI) and P. van Dokkum (Yale); (background) NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
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