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Why do we believe that starburst galaxies represent a temporary stage in galaxy evolution?
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Why do we believe that starburst galaxies represent a temporary stage in galaxy evolution?

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Such galaxies produce so much light that they would have consumed all their gas long ago if they had always been forming stars at this high rate.
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