More than ten billion years ago, before the Milky Way had fully become itself, a massive dwarf galaxy fell into it and was torn apart — and the evidence has been hiding in the orbits of twenty ancient stars ever since. An international team led by Federico Sestito has identified these stars, naming the lost galaxy Loki after the Norse god of chaos, for the disorder written into their paths: some orbit forward, some backward, all of them tracing the memory of a catastrophic collision. Their chemical uniformity, extreme orbital eccentricity, and shared antiquity speak to a single violent event i
Astronomers Discover Loki, Ancient Stellar Remnant of Galactic Collision 10 Billion Years Ago
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