Young, thin and hyperactive: That's what outlier galaxies look like

(International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA)) A new theory offers an explanation of outliers galaxies in the Galaxy Main Sequence related to an in situ (internal) process of galaxy evolution. The theory correctly reproduces the behavior of both normal and abnormal (or outlier) galaxies, and may be further tested by new observations. A study conducted by the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, already posted on the astro.ph archive, is soon to be published in the Astrophysi