Science
Oldest spiral galaxy in the universe captured in fuzzy photo – Livescience.com
It was formed around 12.4 billion years ago.
Astronomers have identified the oldest known spiral galaxy
in the universe, which was formed around 12.4 billion years ago, after rediscovering a fuzzy, forgotten photo taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
The new galaxy, named BRI 1335-0417, measures 15,000 light-years across, making it a third as big as our spiral-shaped home galaxy, the Milky Way
. The galaxy formed around 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang
, making it the earliest example of a spiral galaxy….
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