“这在根本上是一个使暗星系可见的全新方法,”她说道,通过她的方法将使得小到只有银河系千分之一质量的暗矮星系能被观测到。
"This is basically a new method to render dark galaxies visible," she said, adding that her technique should be able to detect dim dwarf galaxies as small as a thousandth the mass of the Milky Way.
现有的理论能很好的预测到遥远星系的干扰,但是这些理论同样预测了数以百计的银河系外的暗星系,而现在只发现了其中的少数星系。
Current theory correctly predicts the distribution of distant galaxies, she said. But it also predicts hundreds of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way, and to date only a few dozen have been found.
据对银河系演化过程的模拟显示,银河系中有大约1 000个暗星系。
Simulations of the Milky Way’s evolution predict that there are about 1, 000 such formations.
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