New galaxies creating stars found

New York : A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxies which, although extremely old -- formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang -- create stars more than a hundred times faster than our own Milky Way.The team made this discovery by accident when investigating quasars, which are supermassive black holes that sit at the centre of enormous galaxies, accreting matter.

They were trying to study star formation in the galaxies that host these quasars"But what we found, in four separate cases, were neighbouring galaxies that were forming stars at a furious pace, producing a hundred solar masses' worth of new stars per year," said Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.