CRASH TEST-ICONIC RINGS AND FLARES OF GALAXIES CREATED BY VIOLENT, INTERGALACTIC COLLISIONS, RESEARCH BY PITT AND PARTNERS FINDS
November 21, 2008
November 21, 2008
PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 21 -- University of Pittsburgh issued the following news release:
The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a multi-institutional project involving the University of Pittsburgh. Published in the Nov. 20 edition of "The Astrophysical Journal," the findings challenge the longst . . .
The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a multi-institutional project involving the University of Pittsburgh. Published in the Nov. 20 edition of "The Astrophysical Journal," the findings challenge the longst . . .