Ram-pressure Stripping of a Dwarf Galaxy by the Cosmic Web

22 September 2025 Galaxies undergo many processes over the lifetime of the Universe, but one of the more striking events can be the “quenching”, or halting of star formation. Quenching can happen for a variety of reasons, but observations of low-mass (dwarf) galaxies suggest that most dwarf galaxies are forming stars unless they are close to a much larger galaxy (or galaxy group or cluster). In “…