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Originally Posted by Paddy
"Because they were not born of the disc, the globulars do not inhabit the disc but are arranged in a more-or-less spherical halo around the core."
I have one question arising from this. If the Milky Way's GCs are so old and were formed with the galaxy itself, what has prevented the gravity of the disc pulling them into the disc?
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Probably the fact that they were further away
, They are also in orbits, so they can not be pulled towards the centre.
Also,the fact that disk stars are younger means that disk collapsed more recently, for the stars to start their own formation.