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Simulations suggest the Milky Way once flipped its disk
Key Takeaways
- Researchers used 25 Milky Way-like simulations from the Auriga suite to study halo rotation.
- Slowly rotating stellar halos were associated with major head-on mergers and disk flips.
- The work offers a possible explanation for the Milky Way’s unusually slow stellar halo rotation.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org