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New insight into why galaxies stop forming stars
- October 29, 2018
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Galaxy clusters are rare regions of the universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars. It has long been known that when a galaxy falls into a cluster, star formation is fairly rapidly shut off in a process known as 'quenching.' A new study has made the best measurement yet of the quenching timescale, measuring how it varies across 70 percent of the history of the universe.
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"New insight into why galaxies stop forming stars", MachPrinciple, October 29, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/New-insight-into-why-galaxies-stop-forming-stars
