{"id":181764,"date":"2024-01-31T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-seek-to-understand-how-regions-of-cosmic-web-influence-behavior-of-galaxies"},"modified":"2024-01-31T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:23:09","slug":"researchers-seek-to-understand-how-regions-of-cosmic-web-influence-behavior-of-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-seek-to-understand-how-regions-of-cosmic-web-influence-behavior-of-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Researchers seek to understand how regions of \u2018cosmic web\u2019 influence behavior of galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-seek-to-understand-how-regions-of-cosmic-web-influence-behavior-of-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Kansas (KU) hope to better understand intricate mechanisms behind the evolution of galaxies, which travel through a \u201ccosmic web\u201d of different environments during their lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Rudnick, professor of physics &amp; astronomy at KU, is leading a team to study \u201cgas content and star-formation properties of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a>\u201d that are altered depending on where they are moving through the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary objective of this project is to comprehend the impact of environmental factors on the transformation of galaxies,\u201d Rudnick said. \u201cIn the universe, galaxies are spread in a non-uniform distribution characterized by varying densities. These galaxies aggregate into large clusters, comprising hundreds to thousands of galaxies, as well as smaller groups, consisting of tens to hundreds of galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Kansas (KU) hope to better understand intricate mechanisms behind the evolution of galaxies, which travel through a \u201ccosmic web\u201d of different environments during their lifespans. Gregory Rudnick, professor of physics &amp; astronomy at KU, is leading a team to study \u201cgas content and star-formation properties of galaxies\u201d that are altered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181764","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=181764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}