{"id":119234,"date":"2021-02-06T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/astronomers-can-predict-when-a-galaxys-star-formation-ends-based-on-the-shape-and-size-of-its-disk"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:22:45","slug":"astronomers-can-predict-when-a-galaxys-star-formation-ends-based-on-the-shape-and-size-of-its-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/astronomers-can-predict-when-a-galaxys-star-formation-ends-based-on-the-shape-and-size-of-its-disk","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Can Predict When a Galaxy\u2019s Star Formation Ends Based on the Shape and Size of its Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-can-predict-when-a-galaxys-star-formation-ends-based-on-the-shape-and-size-of-its-disk3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, galaxies stop making new stars. But why did some stop so much sooner than others? Hint: black holes play a role.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A galaxy\u2019s main business is star formation. And when they\u2019re young, like youth everywhere, they keep themselves busy with it. But galaxies age, evolve, and experience a slow-down in their rate of star formation. Eventually, galaxies cease forming new stars altogether, and astronomers call that quenching. They\u2019ve been studying quenching for decades, yet much about it remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A new study based on the IllustrisTNG simulations has found a link between a galaxy\u2019s quenching and its stellar size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, galaxies stop making new stars. But why did some stop so much sooner than others? Hint: black holes play a role. A galaxy\u2019s main business is star formation. And when they\u2019re young, like youth everywhere, they keep themselves busy with it. But galaxies age, evolve, and experience a slow-down in their rate of star [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119234","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}