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The problem of galaxy formation is one of the most complex in all of astrophysics. With a hundred billion galaxies in the observed portions of the Universe, they are certainly no accident. Yet we do not know how they got there.
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Harwit, M. (1998). Origins of Structure. In: Astrophysical Concepts. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2928-3_13
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