Galactic Pancake Mystery Solved

mOoZik writes "According to the BBC, Astronomers have figured out why a series of small galaxies surrounding the Milky Way are distributed around it in the shape of a pancake. Theorists believed that the eleven dwarf galaxy companions should have a diffuse, spherical arrangement, but a University of Durham team used a supercomputer to show how the galaxies could take the pancake form without challenging cosmological theory."

Comments

Way to go, University of Wherever

[Douglas Simmons]

It makes me smile to see some kids doing a group project at some random college make an apparently major discovery that solves some mystery that the pros at NASA couldn't handle. Stuff like this and that X Prize thing shows that there are indeed a few things citizens are capable of handling. High five, kids. NASA, get on the ball.

Re:Way to go, University of Wherever

[chman]

Yeah, Durham is a great university. With this kind of research going on, they've definitely attained a reputation that leaves them neatly perched a sliver above mediocrity.

I keed, I keed. They were my backup-backup choice, and if they hadn't been so shortsighted as to put the uni that far north, I might have gone to their open day.

Maybe.