An ancient, almost invisible galaxy studied thanks to the ALMA radio telescope
An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” reports the characterization of the galaxy HATLASJ113526.2-01460, or simply J1135, which we see as it was about two billion years after the Big Bang. So far, the problem was actually being able to resolve their characteristics and now a team led by Professor Andrea Lapi used observations conducted with the ALMA radio telescope to obtain this result. ALMA’s power and sensitivity made it possible to detect even the very weak radio and submillimeter emissions, which might be the only ones that reach us from J1135 due to the considerable presence of interstellar dust within it. These observations help to better understand the formation and evolution of galaxies in the young universe.
