The scientists studied an object called the Spiderweb Galaxy, which actually is not yet a single galaxy, but a clustering of protogalaxies more than 10 billion light-years from Earth. Photo: ReutersLondon: Scientists have spotted a giant galaxy—seen as it was more than 10 billion years ago— forming from a surprisingly-dense cold soup of molecular gas. “In this cluster, a giant galaxy is growing by feeding on the soup of cold gas in which it is submerged,” said Emonts. The scientists studied an object called the Spiderweb Galaxy, which actually is not yet a single galaxy, but a clustering of protogalaxies more than 10 billion light-years from the Earth. Such cold molecular gas is the raw material for new stars.

Source: Mint December 03, 2016 10:14 UTC