An artist's representation showing outflow from a supermassive black hole inside the middle of a galaxy. Scientists believe debris from such a black hole or winds from dying stars caused a huge surge of energy that scattered star-forming gasses
Posted on 03/11/2010 11:52:14 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A 'catastrophic event' halted the birth of new stars in an infant galaxy 10 billion years ago, scientists revealed today.
They believe this may explain why early giant galaxies similar to our own Milky Way didn't just keep on expanding after they had formed.
The team from Durham University, observed the massive galaxy, called SMM J1237+6203, as it would have appeared just three billion years after the Big Bang when the Universe was a quarter of its present age.
An artist's representation showing outflow from a supermassive black hole inside the middle of a galaxy. Scientists believe debris from such a black hole or winds from dying stars caused a huge surge of energy that scattered star-forming gasses
According to their findings the galaxy exploded in a series of blasts trillions of times more powerful than any caused by an atomic bomb. The blasts happened every second for millions of years, the scientists said.
The explosions scattered the gas needed to form new stars by helping
it escape the gravitational pull of the galaxy, effectively regulating
its development.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yep, too much gas will do that to ya...............
I suggest Beano!
Yet the Sun is 4.5 billion years old, so somehow star formation carried on in the Milky Way.
This just doesn't make sense.
Wow. I really wanted to know why our galaxy wasn’t growing properly. I couldn’t sleep at night with worry. Now I can. Blessed relief at last.
Maybe marine_uncle knows something about it,...since it is his home turf....LOL!
So are they sure it was ten million years ago and not seven million or seven thousand?
2 Peter 3:8 With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Someone do the math please.
I hate it when that happens.
pretty explosive post.
wow.
But....The Big Bang we are told was created from a primordial atom
That's from the comments....
I bet that was loud!
Bush’s fault?
More proof of Global Warming?
Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe
Looking around found this....with a video:
But new stars are being formed every day. Stars of every age are represented in the Universe. Blue Giants are among the youngest. This is known because blue = very hot (think gas flame on your oven) = very high mass (think extreme gravitational pressure) = rapid nuclear burning = short life.
"The Big Bang was an inside job!" - Rosie O'Donut
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