Milky Way
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While this past collision influenced the Milky Way, the simulations show it is not required to produce the chemical split.
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Astronomers have identified a spiral galaxy that looks strikingly similar to the Milky Way in a period of the Universe when such organized systems were not expected to exist.
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In the Milky Way, only the central nucleus has star densities remotely comparable, and that region still contains only about one thousandth of the stars needed for the little-red-dot models.
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Scientists have spent years examining regions where dark matter should be concentrated, especially the center of the Milky Way, searching for these specific gamma rays.
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Cosmic rays -- high-energy particles moving close to the speed of light -- are known to arrive from within the Milky Way and from more distant regions of the universe.
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