{"id":107153,"date":"2020-05-16T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/astrophysicists-warn-that-entire-galaxies-are-being-killed"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:43:42","slug":"astrophysicists-warn-that-entire-galaxies-are-being-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/astrophysicists-warn-that-entire-galaxies-are-being-killed","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists Warn That Entire Galaxies \u201cAre Being Killed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-warn-that-entire-galaxies-are-being-killed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Cosmic Starvation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first possibility is called ram pressure stripping, a process through which all of the gas that a galaxy would use to form stars is vacuumed away by nearby intergalactic plasma. The other is that the environment inside a galactic cluster simply becomes too hot for cosmic gases to cool and condense into stars, rendering it useless as fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you remove the fuel for star formation, you effectively kill the galaxy,\u201d Brown writes, \u201cturning it into a dead object in which no new stars are formed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Starvation The first possibility is called ram pressure stripping, a process through which all of the gas that a galaxy would use to form stars is vacuumed away by nearby intergalactic plasma. The other is that the environment inside a galactic cluster simply becomes too hot for cosmic gases to cool and condense into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}