June 25, 2017

The galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741 and the galaxy MACS2129-1 (Image NASA, ESA, and S. Toft (University of Copenhagen), M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH team)

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a study of the galaxy MACS 2129-1. An international team of researchers led by Sune Toft of the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, Denmark used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to gather information about MACS 2129-1. The result is that no new stars are being formed and this is really surprising because it’s very far away so we see it as it was at a time when the universe was at the highest rate of star production.