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The most luminous galaxy in the Universe--a so-called obscured quasar 12.4 billion light-years away--is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). A team of researchers used ALMA to trace, for the first time, the actual motion of the galaxy's interstellar medium--the gas and dust between the stars.
What they found is a galaxy "so chaotic that it is ripping itself apart."Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
