{"id":82191,"date":"2018-08-29T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-a-thousand-times-faster-than-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:03:40","slug":"ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-a-thousand-times-faster-than-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-a-thousand-times-faster-than-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Ancient \u2018Monster Galaxy\u2019 Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-a-thousand-times-faster-than-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chile\u2019s Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what researchers expected. It\u2019s forming stars at an absolutely incredible rate.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMonster Galaxy\u201d, also known as COSMOS-AzTEC-1, formed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, and it turns more than a thousand Suns worth of gas into stars each year. Scientists still don\u2019t understand these early galaxies very well, but now they have some new information that can shed light on why they form stars so blisteringly fast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-a-thousand-ti-1828693331\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ancient-monster-galaxy-is-forming-stars-...1828693331<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile\u2019s Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what researchers expected. It\u2019s forming stars at an absolutely incredible rate. The \u201cMonster Galaxy\u201d, also known as COSMOS-AzTEC-1, formed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, and it turns more than a thousand Suns worth of gas into stars each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82191","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=82191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}