It's known as Galaxy DLA0817g, but astronomers nicknamed it the Wolfe Disk after late astronomer Arthur M. Wolfe, former doctoral advisor to three of the study's four authors. It represents the most distant rotating disk galaxy they have ever observed, thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile known as ALMA.
"Most galaxies that we find early in the universe look like train wrecks because they underwent consistent and often 'violent' merging," said Marcel Neeleman, lead study author and postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, in a statement. "These hot mergers make it difficult to form well-ordered, cold rotating disks like we observe in our present universe.
"We think the Wolfe Disk has grown primarily through the steady accretion of cold gas," said J. Xavier Prochaska, study coauthor and professor of astronomy and astrophysics of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement. "Still, one of the questions that remains is how to assemble such a large gas mass while maintaining a relatively stable, rotating disk."
Neeleman and his colleagues first spotted the Wolfe Disk using ALMA in 2017 when light from a quasar passed through hydrogen gas around the galaxy and revealed it. A quasar, which looks a bit like a star through a telescope, is actually a remote object that emits a large amount of energy likely powered by matter falling on a black hole at the center of a galaxy. The light helped them identify this normal galaxy, rather than the direct light emitted by extremely bright galaxies.
Absolutely stunning. Would anyone be able to show this without the color enhancement (what it would look to the naked eye)?
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