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.
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Show me the video.
An event that happens in a lifeless universe is not a catastrophe no matter how large it is.
Ya. As the accompanied article indicates. It was a hoax. As for a total galaxy to explode. This stuff is as bad as AGW based on CO2.
I get so confused....I liked the Killer electrons....
Funny physics.
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