The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) helped astronomers in discovering many monstrous baby galaxies swaddled in dark matter. As per a new release, the discovered galaxies are more than 11 billion light years from our home planet.

The astronomers hope these galaxies could offer new clues on their formation and how they become so massive. Over 10 million years ago, when the sun and earth were not in universe, there were several huge galaxies. At that time, star formation was also greater than in the Milky Way galaxy today.

Early universe was full on monstrous galaxies, but modern universe lacks huge galaxies. However, some astronomers still believe young monstrous galaxies are capable of evolving into giant elliptical galaxies. They said monstrous galaxies are formed in regions that are full of dark matter.

The astronomers used ALMA to find these monstrous galaxies. According to them, they used the astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes to perform observations in SSA22 region of the sky in constellation Aquarius. As ALMA has high resolutions, it found about nine monstrous galaxies in the region.

The astronomers said, “We found that the young monstrous galaxies were located between dark matter filaments, which indicated that these galaxies are formed in areas with high concentrations of dark matter”.

The new findings could help the astronomers in understanding dark matter and its role in the evolution of monstrous galaxies. The astronomers said the findings are going to reveal several things about the universe.