Astronomers Finally Solve Baffling Star Birth Mystery

摘要

Astronomers have solved a longstanding cosmic mystery - why a super-dense gas cloud near our Milky Way galaxy's core is not churning out many new stars. The gas cloud, known as G0.253+0.016, is simply swirling too fast, researchers said. And it lacks the requisite pockets of even denser material, which eventually collapse under their own gravity to form stars.