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27: How to Build a Galaxy

The Supermassive Podcast

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What Are the Different Types of Galaxies?

There are two main types of galaxies. First is a flat disc structure, and that could have spiral structure. It could also have this sort of long thin structure that we call a bar as well. Or you could have sort of a roundish blobish beach, this boring thing. And so what actually gives us those spirals that we might see or whether it is that bar structure through the center, you know, what's going on there to give us that sort of structure? Yeah. So essentially that's what the field of galaxy evolution is trying to explain - how did we go from super hydrogen after the big bang to all of these shapes today?

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