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Astronomers looked at more than 22,000 galaxies and found that while smaller galaxies are very efficient at creating stars from gas, the most massive galaxies are much less efficient at star formation, producing hardly any new stars themselves, and instead grow by eating other galaxies. Dr Aaron Robotham, who is based at the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said smaller dwarf galaxies were being eaten by their larger counterparts.... ~Kyle B Read more at: phys.org/news/2014-09-monster-galaxies-gain-weight-smaller.html#jCp
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:30:01 +0000

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