{"id":201002,"date":"2024-12-08T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ancient-cosmic-collisions-may-have-birthed-the-universes-most-monstrous-galaxies"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:23:36","slug":"ancient-cosmic-collisions-may-have-birthed-the-universes-most-monstrous-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ancient-cosmic-collisions-may-have-birthed-the-universes-most-monstrous-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Ancient cosmic collisions may have birthed the universe\u2019s most monstrous galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-cosmic-collisions-may-have-birthed-the-universes-most-monstrous-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how galaxies were created in the early universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research was published on Wednesday (Dec. 4) in the journal <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=92X1588396&xcust=space_us_3498626699701634725&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-024-08201-6&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fgiant-galaxies-growth-elliptical\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08201-6\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-hl-processed=\"skimlinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=92X1588396&xcust=hawk-custom-tracking&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-024-08201-6&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fgiant-galaxies-growth-elliptical\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"SkimLinks - nature.com\" data-merchant-id=\"undefined\" data-merchant-url=\"undefined\" data-merchant-network=\"undefined\">Nature.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team made their breakthrough using the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25534-alma.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25534-alma.html\">Atacama Large Millimeter Array<\/a> (ALMA). ALMA is the largest astronomical project in existence comprised of 66 radio antennas situated in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how galaxies were created in the early universe.\u201d The team\u2019s research was published on Wednesday (Dec. 4) in the journal Nature. The team made their breakthrough using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA is the largest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201002","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=201002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}