OKC colloquia

Circumgalactic Cosmology

by Masataka Fukugita (Univ. of Tokyo)

Europe/Stockholm
FA32

FA32

Description
Galaxies, often called "island universes", are not isolated objects in the Universe (so not island universe, in fact), and intergalactic space is never empty but fully filled with materials. I discuss the observational evidence leading to this conclusion and the interplay of galaxies and intergalactic space.