Earliest Building Blocks Of Milky Way Galaxy Named Shakti, Shiva By Scientists

Naming these groups of stars 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', astronomers said the findings are the equivalent of "finding traces of an initial settlement that grew into a large present-day city".

Earliest "building blocks" of our Milky Way galaxy have been identified from 12-13 billion years ago, which is very close in time to when the universe's first galaxies started to form, according to a new research.

Naming these groups of stars 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', astronomers said the findings are the equivalent of "finding traces of an initial settlement that grew into a large present-day city".

Milky Way is said to have formed by the merging of smaller galaxies, making way for "fairly large building blocks", according to the researchers.