In a new study, University of Missouri astronomy professor Charles Steinhardt challenges the notion long held by professional astronomers that red galaxies are simply "dead" and have ceased forming stars.
April 9, 2025 Contact: Eric Stann, StannE@missouri.edu The universe doesn’t come with an instruction manual — but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing by different rules all along, or humanity has been reading the script wrong. Traditionally, astronomers have grouped galaxies into...