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Mr Hopkins believes it originated in the Milky Way's "thick disk".

That could mean the files and formats we use now, face a similar fate to the floppy disks and DVD drives of the past.

During a search of the surgeon's home, police uncovered stacks of diaries and hard disks in which Le Scouarnec appeared to list hundreds more victims.

“This was intriguing, but without a way to obtain spectra of those stars, we could not really establish whether we were witnessing genuine accretion and the presence of disks, or just some artificial effects.”

The older we get, the more the cushiony disks that separate the vertebrae thin out.