The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers, including experts from Harvard and the Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics.
The team of researchers has two suggestions. First – this object named HD1 can form very fast stars and it can be home to Population III stars, which are the first stars in the universe and which have never been seen before. Another suggestion is that HD1 may be home to a massive black hole 100 million times the mass of our Sun.
The discovery has been reported in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). Researchers have told in a report published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) that they have started thinking about this galaxy.
Fabio Pacucci, the lead author of the MNRAS study and co-author of the paper in ApJ, said that it is difficult to answer all the questions on one source. This research is going to take a long time. Regarding Population III stars, they say that this earliest population of the universe was much larger, brighter and hotter than the stars present today. If we assume that the stars that form in HD1 are Population III stars, the characteristics of the Milky Way can be better described.
HD1 was discovered after nearly 1,200 hours of observations using the Subaru Telescope, the VISTA Telescope, the UK Infrared Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.