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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory image above of the distant galaxy 3C295

News | 05.16.2012

The Ancient Massive Galaxy Mystery -- 80 percent Appear Extremely Active and Growing

"We found a relatively large number of very massive, highly luminous galaxies that existed almost 12 billion years ago when the universe was still very young, about 1.5 billion years old. These results appear to disagree with the latest predictions from models of galaxy formation and evolution," said Tufts astrophysicist Danilo Marchesini, lead author on the paper and assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences...

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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) Smithsonian Institute; (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)

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