Astronomers have made a discovery of cosmic proportions: they have seen the beginning stages of a massive galaxy's formation. Their findings, detailed this week in a paper published in the journal Nature, confirmed something astronomers had theorized about but had never seen an example of: that galaxies in the early universe had a highly dense core formation phase, which allowed them to house billions of stars in relatively compact spaces.

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