Yale scientists see the birth of a massive galaxy, hidden by dust

Graduate student Erica Nelson and her collaborators have discovered a window into the early, violent formation of the cores of the universe’s monster galaxies, obscured behind walls of dust, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and a telescope from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.  The discovery offers important clues about an early phase of galaxy development, from a time just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.  The research appears in the journal Nature.