A primordial galaxy with a greater order than expected
An article published in the journal “Nature” reports the study of a primordial galaxy we see as it was when the universe was 1.4 billion years old and resembles the Milky Way, a surprise because we see it when it was very young, and according to current theories should be turbulent and unstable. A team of researchers led by Francesca Rizzo, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, used the ALMA radio telescope to observe this galaxy, cataloged as SPT-S J041839-4751.9, or simply SPT0418-47. Help came from a gravitational lens that magnified the image, allowing to see the similarities with the Milky Way and gather new information on the early stages of galaxy evolution.
