Wednesday 22 April 2015

Giant galaxies die from the inside out

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Giant galaxies die from the inside out
Paris (SPX) Apr 22, 2015 - A major astrophysical mystery has centred on how massive, quiescent elliptical galaxies, common in the modern Universe, quenched their once furious rates of star formation. Such colossal galaxies, often also called spheroids because of their shape, typically pack in stars ten times as densely in the central regions as in our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and have about ten times its mass. As ... more


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