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ASTROPHYSICS: Coming Into Focus: A Universe Shaped By Violent Galaxies
Robert Irion
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA--Astronomers and theorists still lack a detailed model of how the Milky Way and its cousins formed. But they now agree on one thing: Galaxies really blow.