Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the "better to burn out than to fade away" credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young "starburst" galaxies--ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way--would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call "red and dead."
Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the "better to burn out than to fade away" credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young "starburst" galaxies--ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way--would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call "red and dead."
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