Milky Way 'Ate' Smaller, Weaker Galaxy

Kierthos writes: "In a true sign of survival of the biggest, astronomers and scientists now believe that the Milky Way 'ate' a smaller galaxy billions of years ago. They believe that this could shed some light on the origin of the universe, although their search only included 1500 "sun-like" stars (far short of the 10,000 stars they want to search). Check out the article here."