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SUMMARY:The Secret Lives of Galaxies: Allison Kirkpatrick\,'16PhD:
LOCATION:Life Science Laboratories IALS Conference Center\, 240 Thatcher R
 oad\, Amherst\, Massachusetts 01003
DESCRIPTION:At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a black hole million
 s to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Surrounding each galaxy is a 
 vast halo of dark matter that outweighs all of its stars\, gas\, and dust
  combined. We can’t see either one\, yet together they have shaped everyt
 hing we can see.\n\nIn this talk\, Allison Kirkpatrick ’16PhD\, will take
  you on a 13-billion-year journey through the life cycle of a galaxy\, to
 ld through X-ray\, optical\, and infrared light and illuminated by her ow
 n observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. Beginning near the da
 wn of time when dark matter created the scaffolding for the first galaxie
 s and the first giant black holes somehow sprang into existence\, the sto
 ry will follow those young galaxies as they grow and evolve\, settling in
 to graceful spirals during a cosmic boom that produced most of the stars 
 in the universe. Along the way\, galaxies will collide\, fueling black ho
 les powerful enough to reshape their hosts. Finally\, it explores how the
  story ends: why galaxies stop forming stars and what that means for gala
 xies like our own Milky Way.\n\nAllison Kirkpatrick\, '16PhD\, is a leadi
 ng expert in measuring the impact of supermassive black holes on galaxies
  over the age of the universe. She observes galaxies with NASA's premier 
 space telescopes and played a leading role in the collaboration that took
  the first observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. She now lead
 s her own JWST observing program\, MEGA\, which is revealing whether the\
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