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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Magellanic Group And Its Seven Dwarf Galaxies



Astronomers at the University of Zurich have proposed a new theory for the formation of dwarf galaxies. Elena D’Onghia and George Lake have solved several outstanding problems by comparing observed dwarfs to supercomputer simulations of their formation.The properties of dwarf galaxies have presented many challenges. "Ten years ago, my team at the University of Washington found that our cosmological model predicts 30-50 times as many small objects as we see. If the numbers had been nearly equal, that would have been an easy success for the model.

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