The research group uses the millimetre and submillimetre region of the electromagnetic spectrum to investigate various phenomena in the universe. The cosmic background radiation, for example, (“echo ...

Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores. An international team of researchers ...

Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...

Case Studies in Star Formation offers an overview of our current observational and theoretical understanding in the molecular astronomy of star formation ... In recent years, however, the development ...

The team used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array) telescope in Chile – the most powerful radio ... The researchers say their observations – to be published in the journal ...

Schematic diagram shows how spheroid formation occurs in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies, and how this process connects to the evolution of giant elliptical galaxies in today's Universe.

This discovery will deepen our understanding of how galaxies evolved from the early Universe, reports a new study in Nature ("In situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies").