![Image of the comic web gas simulated by Claudio Dalla Vecchia, IAC researcher. The center of the red halo shows a galaxy in the process of formation. The simulation has been carried out using the supercomputer MareNostrum, within the project EAGLE/ADGE. C Image of the comic web gas simulated by Claudio Dalla Vecchia, IAC researcher. The center of the red halo shows a galaxy in the process of formation. The simulation has been carried out using the supercomputer MareNostrum, within the project EAGLE/ADGE. C](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/prensa986_1589.jpg?itok=xulcHwCF)
Using the GTC telescope, an international team lead be astronomers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected galaxies feeding directly from cosmic web gas. The observation is both expected and surprising – gas feeding is expected from theory, but had never been observed before.
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