Signs of galactic cannibalism

Amina Helmi ()
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Amina Helmi: Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik

Nature, 2001, vol. 412, issue 6842, 25-26

Abstract: Theories predict that galaxies grow by swallowing smaller galaxies, which may then show up as galactic debris. Astronomers think they have found one such tell-tale structure in a nearby galaxy.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1038/35083656

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