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Cosmology

the picture in which small dark matter halos form first and merge into larger ones, with galaxies forming as gas cools at their centres.

In cosmology, hierarchical structure formation refers to the picture in which small dark matter halos form first and merge into larger ones, with galaxies forming as gas cools at their centres. This meaning comes from White (1978) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]

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White, S. D. M., & Rees, M. J. (1978). Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 183(3), 341-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/183.3.341

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