Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed the death of a distant galaxy, which they describe as a "truly extreme event." If the astronomers are correct that the merger led to the massive loss of gas, they will need to reconsider 1/

prior theories on how galaxies form and evolve ~ and how they die.

Abstract.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01268-x?ftag=MSF0951a18

This artist's impression of ID2299 shows the galaxy, the product of a galactic collision, and some of its gas being ejected. 2/

It has taken about nine billion years for the light from the starburst galaxy ID2299 to reach Earth. So, when astronomers happened to observe it by chance, they witnessed the universe as it appeared at just 4.5 billion years old.

See what happens when I sit my sorry ass on Twitter.