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"'Many early theories of galaxy formation predicted a Lyman-alpha 'fuzz' around early galaxies,' said James Geach, an astronomer at the University of Durham who works on Lyman-alpha blobs. 'The problem is that no-one is entirely sure what mechanism gives rise to the extended emission; a number of theories of Lyman-alpha blob formation abound, but all are difficult to test,' he told BBC News."
- 'Space blob' baffles astronomers, BBC website, 22 April 2009.
April 23, 2009