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    Astronomers discover Unusual Monster Galaxy in the Very Early Universe

    February 7, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    The three panels show, from top to bottom, what XMM-2599’s evolutionary trajectory might be, beginning as a dusty star-forming galaxy, then becoming a dead galaxy, and perhaps ending up as a “brightest cluster galaxy,” or BCG. (NRAO/AUI/NSF/B. Saxton; NASA/ESA/R. Foley; NASA/StScI)

    An international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found an unusual monster galaxy that existed about 12 billion years ago, when the universe was only 1.8 billion years old.

    Dubbed XMM-2599, the galaxy formed stars at a high rate and then died. Why it suddenly stopped forming stars is unclear.

    “Even before the universe was 2 billion years old, XMM-2599 had already formed a mass of more than 300 billion suns, making it an ultramassive galaxy,” ...

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