ALMA Witnesses Deadly Star-Slinging Tug-of-War Between Merging Galaxies

30/08/2022 4 min Episodio 21
ALMA Witnesses Deadly Star-Slinging Tug-of-War Between Merging Galaxies

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While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered that it had stopped forming stars, not because it had used up all of its gas, but because most of its star-forming fuel had been thrown out of the system as it merged with another galaxy. The result is a first for ALMA scientists. Moreover, if proven common, the results could change how scientists think about galaxy mergers and deaths.