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Greedy Galaxies Gobbled Gas, Stalling Star Formation Billions Of Years Ago

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:36
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Arp 147 contains a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with an elliptical galaxy (left), triggering a wave of star formation. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STScI

Arp 147 contains a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with an elliptical galaxy (left), triggering a wave of star formation. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STScI

Like millionaires that burn through their cash too quickly, astronomers have found one factor behind why compact elliptical galaxies stopped growing stars about 11 billion years ago: they ate through their gas reserves.

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Post tags: 3d-hst, compact elliptical galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Subaru Telescope, submillimeter astronomy, submillimeter galaxies

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