Young stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the universe

16/12/2019
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF, Italy) have shown that massive early-type galaxies keep on forming stars, even though at a very slow rate. The results of this work, whose first author is the Severo Ochoa PhD student at the IAC/ULL Núria Salvador-Rusiñol, are published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. The study is based on 30,000 early-type galaxy spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey BOSS (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey). >> Read more