Date:
Friday, March 1, 2013
UCI Professor Asantha Cooray Published in Nature International Weekly Journal of Science
An explanation has been proposed for the observed excess of cosmic light at infrared wavelengths.
It invokes stars that are cast into the dark-matter haloes of their parent galaxies during powerful galaxy collisions. See Letter p.514
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