Hiding in Plain Sight: Undergraduates Discover the Densest Galaxies Known

Computer animated movie showing the formation of an ultra-dense galaxy: the giant host galaxy disrupts the smaller galaxy, removing its fluffy outer parts, and the dense center is left behind. The animation then Astronomicals in to a possible embedded planet and supermassive black hole. Click for the full version.

Credit:

M. Sandoval, A. Romanowsky (SJSU).

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Id:noao1503a
Release date:July 27, 2015
Related releases:noao1503, noao1503
Duration:08 s
Frame rate:29.97

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Category:Galaxies

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