The rapid assembly of an elliptical galaxy of 400 billion solar masses at a redshift of 2.3

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astrobites, 09 Jun 2013

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Sci-News.com, 23 May 2013

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-formin…

Merger of ancient galaxies could explain the origin of today’s giants

Nobel Intent, 22 May 2013

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Observation of a merger between two galaxies early in the life of the Universe could explain…

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