Explained: What is Cosmic Yeti? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is Cosmic Yeti? | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: October 26, 2019 4:13:17 pm

Explained: What is Cosmic Yeti?

Cosmic Yeti: Regarded as folklore, monster galaxies of the early universe. Now, footprints of one found, by accident.

An artist’s impression of what a massive galaxy in the early universe might look like, as stars form inside. (Swinburne Astronomy Productions; (University of Arizona)

Scientists have accidentally discovered what they describe as “the footprints a monstrous galaxy” in the early universe. No evidence of any such galaxy had ever been found before. Hence, the scientists have equated these to the mythical Yeti: “Like a cosmic Yeti, the scientific community generally regarded these galaxies as folklore, given the lack of evidence of their existence, but astronomers in the United States and Australia managed to snap a picture of the beast for the first time,” the University of Arizona said in a statement. The discovery is reported in The Astrophysical Journal.