Quiescent

being quiet or still; inactive; motionless; at rest; in a state of inactivity or dormancy

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The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a massive, quiescent red galaxy, dubbed "Red Potato," within a gas-rich cosmic web node at redshift 3.2, exhibiting low star formation activity. doi.org/hbnnvn

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ntheowl

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Horace says he's 'probing the quiescent emission of a unique isolated neutron star'. Hm. Likely story.

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The JWST EXCELS survey: The ages and abundances of $3quiescent galaxies show that downsizing was already in place by $z\simeq4$
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05934
Ho-Hin Leung et al.

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