Astronomers detect ‘whirlpool’ movement in earliest galaxies; swirling gases soon after Big Bang
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These ‘newborns’ — observed as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago — spun like a whirlpool, similar to our own Milky Way. This is the first time that it has been possible to detect movement in galaxies at such an early point in the universe’s history. …read more
