The rapid formation of a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang
Observations and theoretical simulations have established a framework for galaxy formation and evolution in the young Universe. Galaxies formed as baryonic gas cooled at the centres of collapsing dark-matter haloes; mergers of haloes and galaxies then led to the hierarchical build-up of galaxy mass....
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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