Origin of the Globular Star Clusters

Abstract

We argue that the globular clusters may have originated as gravitationally bound gas clouds before the galaxies formed. This idea follows from the primeval-fireball picture, which suggests that the first bound systems to have formed in the expanding Universe were gas clouds with mass and shape quite similar to the globular star clusters. We present also a picture for the evolution from these assumed proto- globular gas clouds to globular star cluster