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Live Fast, Die Young: The Meteoric Rise of Giant Galaxies

Live Fast, Die Young: The Meteoric Rise of Giant Galaxies

Our best theoretical models struggle to explain how the early Universe built so many giants so quickly, or why they stopped forming stars and retired so early. In this talk I’ll describe how my team is hunting down these cosmic overachievers and what their existence means for our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

Aspen Center for Physics
Free
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM on Wed, 4 Mar 2026

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Aspen Center for Physics
Aspen Center for Physics
700 West Gillespie St
Aspen, Colorado 81611
970.925.2585
acp@aspenphys.org