{"id":129934,"date":"2021-11-03T14:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/whats-killing-the-galaxies-next-door-the-cosmic-thief-stealing-from-our-neighboring-galaxy-cluster-has-been-found-say-scientists"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:22:42","slug":"whats-killing-the-galaxies-next-door-the-cosmic-thief-stealing-from-our-neighboring-galaxy-cluster-has-been-found-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/whats-killing-the-galaxies-next-door-the-cosmic-thief-stealing-from-our-neighboring-galaxy-cluster-has-been-found-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Killing The Galaxies Next Door? The \u2018Cosmic Thief\u2019 Stealing From Our Neighboring Galaxy-Cluster Has Been Found Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-killing-the-galaxies-next-door-the-cosmic-thief-stealing-from-our-neighboring-galaxy-cluster-has-been-found-say-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something is killing-off galaxies by preventing the birth of stars\u2014and astronomers now think they know why.<\/p>\n<p>While studying 51 galaxies in a \u201cgalaxy-cluster\u201d called the Virgo Cluster an international team of scientists have found that molecular gas\u2014the fuel for new stars\u2014is being \u201cswept away by a huge cosmic broom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what is preventing nearby galaxies from birthing new stars has been a long-standing mystery in astrophysics. The new paper, <a aria-label=\"now available online\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/74n5c4m7.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2111.00937\/1\/0102017ce0cd489e-0b068518-7733-41f0-a4bc-ef27f3bcdcc1-000000\/f4aSoW4sBuxYhrb1rbP6opMhc3A=242\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/74n5c4m7.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2111.00937\/1\/0102017ce0cd489e-0b068518-7733-41f0-a4bc-ef27f3bcdcc1-000000\/f4aSoW4sBuxYhrb1rbP6opMhc3A=242\">now available online<\/a>, blames the extreme environment of the Virgo Cluster. It\u2019s been accepted by the journal <em>Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something is killing-off galaxies by preventing the birth of stars\u2014and astronomers now think they know why. While studying 51 galaxies in a \u201cgalaxy-cluster\u201d called the Virgo Cluster an international team of scientists have found that molecular gas\u2014the fuel for new stars\u2014is being \u201cswept away by a huge cosmic broom.\u201d Exactly what is preventing nearby galaxies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129934","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}