How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate to produce
the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including
ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral
galaxies and the problems faced when trying to explain the
existence of spiral structure within them. In the book, subjects
such as galaxy morphology and structure are addressed as well as
several models for spiral structure. The evidence in favor or
against these models is discussed. The book ends by discussing how
spiral structure can be used as a proxy for other properties of
spiral galaxies, such as their dark matter content and their
central supermassive black hole masses, and why this is important.
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