
28: How to Kill a Galaxy
The Supermassive Podcast
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Is There a Relationship Between the Shape of a Galaxy and Its Death?
Do the shape of a galaxy have any influence on its death? Yes, a hundred %. We know that 70% of the red galaxies are blobber shaped and 30% are pristine spirals. But proving that it's the bar doing the killing is very, very difficult. I t has this relly, cool diagram that i show at the bginning of talk. You have all the different processes that could kill a galaxy on like a a graph where it split into four quadrants. And then i add all these arrows that essentially show that ike, one leads to the other, and one leads the other. It's so difficult to piece out. One thing we do know
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