Recent observations show that some galaxies exist that have already run out of fuel only a few billion years after the Big Bang, challenging the current view on how galaxies form and evolve in a cold dark-matter-dominated Universe.
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Maraston, C. Running on fumes. Nat Astron 5, 980–981 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01504-y
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