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  • Astronomers discover 'hyper-starburst' galaxy

    Dec 15, 2016 3:00 pm by NASAResearch
    a galaxy found about a billion years after the Big Bang that has one of the highest rates of star formation ever seen in a galaxy. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Florida/J.Ma et al

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    • a galaxy found about a billion years after the Big Bang that has one of the highest rates of star formation ever seen in a galaxy. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Florida/J.Ma et al

    The finding presents an opportunity to study one of the mysteries behind star formation, according to one of the study’s co-authors at the University of Illinois.