Earliest Building Blocks Of Milky Way Galaxy Named Shakti and Shiva By Scientists

Galaxies are made up of thousands of stars and planets. But the materials at the time of their formation are said to be 12-13 billion years old. This is said to be the time when the first galaxies in the universe began to form. This has been mentioned in a new study. Astronomers have named this group of stars ‘Shiva’ and ‘Shakti’. It has been said that it is as if a small settlement was established and later with development it became a big city.

The Milky Way is said to have been formed by the merger of smaller galaxies. In which larger building blocks have been used in the form of groups of stars. When two galaxies merge, their stellar populations carry most of the same properties as their parent galaxy, such as speed and direction.

This study has been published in The Astrophysical Journal. Report According to , Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Astronomy analyzed the Stellar database and found that the two galaxies collided at two specific points of energy. That means the energy and angular momentum were different in both. So after their collision, the same speed and energy continued in their group of stars. So that two types of star clusters are formed inside one galaxy, which are called Shiva and Shakti.

Study co-author Khyati Malhan named these two structures Shakti and Shiva. These two names have immense significance for Hindus on earth as they represent the cosmic energy present in the form of male and female. The researchers found that similar stars, Shiva and Shakti, came from different galaxies. These had more angular momentum than other stars, rather than those stars that were present near the center or heart of the galaxy. This angular momentum remained constant. And it was present only in those stars which had come from different galaxies and met.