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...discovery of a dwarf galaxy star nearly as old as the universe has provided a missing link in supporting the “cannibalistic” theory of galaxy formation, according to a study led by Harvard researcher Anna Frebel that was published in the journal “Nature” this month...
...years astronomers have discussed the theory that the Milky Way formed by “eating up” smaller dwarf galaxies, but there was a crucial piece of evidence absent from such an explanation, said Frebel, who is a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...looks like many dwarf galaxies got shredded and deposited their stars in the halo of the Milky Way,” Frebel said...