Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-Like Starbirth in Far-Flung Galaxy
Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 13:50
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic "wind" of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old. By tracing the outflow of hydroxyl (OH) molecules - which herald the presence of star-forming gas in galaxies - the researchers show how some galaxies in the early universe quenched an ongoing wildfire of starbirth.