Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch

Astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe's distant past have found nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The galaxies, each only 5,000 light-years across, are a fraction of the size of today's grownup galaxies but contain approximately the same number of stars.

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