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Galaxies are thought to develop by the gravitational attraction between and merger of smaller 'sub-galaxies', a process that standard cosmological ideas suggest should be ongoing. But new data from a team of scientists from Liverpool John Moores University directly challenges this idea, suggesting that the growth of some of the most massive objects stopped 7 billion years ago when the Universe was half its present age
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I found this
article from Claire Burke from the Astrophysics Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University pretty interesting.
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Ms Burke comments: "The lack of growth of the most massive galaxies is a major challenge to current models of the formation and evolution of large scale structure in the Universe
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Do you think this data fits in the cyclic model of the universe as put forth by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok?, is it more proof for their model or not?
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