Scientist and professor of the California Institute of Technology, Christopher Martin believes that giant disk of gas are the possible answer on how galaxies are made.
According to Martin, together with his colleagues, they found this new type of object by investigating a huge luminous filament of gas. Their observations could trigger to answer on how galaxies are formed.
They used the cold accretion model (or cold flow model), which predicts that there are streams of gas coming straight from the filaments of the cosmic web, which funnel gas down into a galaxy.
The study titled "A Giant Protogalactic Disk Linked To The Cosmic Web" was published in the journal Nature cited the study found out that the gas in the filament flows at a constant velocity and feeds into the rotating disk, which is about three times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy.
Martin added that the findings are a very simple way on how to answer the question on how galaxies are formed.
Martin is the lead scientist to his team -Mateusz Matuszewski, Patrick Morrissey, James Neill, Anna Moore, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Xavier Prochaska and Daphne Chang.
"We have constructed an integral field spectrograph, called the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager (PCWI), that is designed to search for, map and characterize intergalactic-medium emission and other low surface brightness phenomena," cited in the study.
