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" All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
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" We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins. "
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