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Star wars: what killed the universe’s massive galaxies?

Horizon Magazine Blog – The EU Research & Innovation Magazine
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Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

With the help of EU funding, researchers have set out to discover the origin of these galaxies and unlock more mysteries of the universe.

Toft led the EU -funded ConTExt project from 2015 to 2021 .

The goal was to observe some of the oldest elliptical galaxies possible.

Black holes drive the formation and evolution of a galaxy, churning and expelling gas and dust throughout a galaxy’s history.

Belli has found that these black holes might also be responsible for stopping star formation in early galaxies.

In April 2024 , his team used JWST to report the discovery of a massive galaxy undergoing quenching about 2.6 billion years after the Big Bang .