We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way
- Written by Richard de Grijs, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University
The warped spiral galaxy ESO 510-G13 seen edge-on.NASA
From a great distance, our Milky Way would look like a thin disc of stars that rotates once every few hundred million years around its central region. Hundreds of billions of stars provide the gravitational glue to hold it all together.
But the pull of gravity is much weaker in the...