Science
Against All Odds, New Stars Are Being Born [Infographic] – Forbes
Researchers at the University of Kansas have found that a galaxy 5.25 billion light-years away is creating new stars when it shouldn’t be.
Illustration of CQ 4479, a puzzling “cold quasar” making improbable new stars
picture credit: NASA
A research team at the University of Kansas has found something a little strange in the cosmos. A galaxy that sits 5.25 billion light-years away has been creating new stars when it should be past that time in its life cycle. It’s known as CQ 4479 and at the moment it is considered to be a quasar. A regular quasar is simply a galaxy that has a luminous active galactic nucleus. Inside that nucleus is…
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