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Re: Astronomy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16702962
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Frenetic star-forming activity in the early Universe is linked to the most massive galaxies in today's cosmos, new research suggests.
This "starbursting" activity when the Universe was just a few billion years old appears to have been clamped off by the growth of supermassive black holes.
An international team gathered hints of the mysterious "dark matter" in early galaxies to confirm the link
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Using the 12-metre Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope in Chile, an international team led by Ryan Hickox of Dartmouth College studied the way distant galaxies from the early Universe grouped together
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"This is the first time that we've been able to show this clear link between the most energetic starbursting galaxies in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies in the present day," said Dr Hickox.
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