Catastrophic incident in premature Universe could have halted development of our Milky Way

A 'catastrophic incident' halted the delivery of new stars in a newborn galaxy 10 billion years ago, scientists revealed today.

They believe and explain why premature giant galaxies like Milky Way didn’t just keep on growing after they had formed.

The group from Durham University, experiential the huge galaxy, called SMM J1237+6203, as it would have appeared now three billion years following the Big Bang while the Universe was a quarter of its present age.

 According to their result the galaxy exploded in a sequence of blasts trillions of times more influential than any caused by an atomic bomb. The scientists said blasts happened each second for millions of years.

The detonation scattered the gas required to form new stars by helping it flee the gravitational pull of the galaxy, efficiently regulating

its growth.

They consider the huge surge of energy was caused by either the outflow of debris from the galaxy's black hole or since powerful winds generated by dying stars called supernovae.

The research, funded by the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, is in print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Observations of the galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, were carried out by means of the Gemini Observatory here on Earth.