A massive, dead disk galaxy in the early Universe

Sune Toft (), Johannes Zabl, Johan Richard, Anna Gallazzi, Stefano Zibetti, Moire Prescott, Claudio Grillo, Allison W. S. Man, Nicholas Y. Lee, Carlos Gómez-Guijarro, Mikkel Stockmann, Georgios Magdis and Charles L. Steinhardt
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Sune Toft: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Johannes Zabl: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Johan Richard: Université Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Ens de Lyon, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon UMR5574, F-69230 Saint-Genis-Laval
Anna Gallazzi: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Stefano Zibetti: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Moire Prescott: New Mexico State University
Claudio Grillo: Università degli Studi di Milano
Allison W. S. Man: European Southern Observatory
Nicholas Y. Lee: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Carlos Gómez-Guijarro: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Mikkel Stockmann: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Georgios Magdis: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Charles L. Steinhardt: Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Nature, 2017, vol. 546, issue 7659, 510-513

Abstract: When the Universe was just 3 billion years old, half of the most massive galaxies had already ceased star formation, and such a galaxy has now been observed using gravitational lensing, unexpectedly turning out to be a compact, fast-spinning disk galaxy rather than a proto-bulge galaxy.

Date: 2017
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