article_snippet.sent: Take a look at the amount of fuel for star formation in the universe, compared to the number of stars, and you'll notice something strange - there should be 10 times as many stars as there are.
article_snippet.sent: It's a problem that has perplexed scientists, but a study in early March claimed to have an answer, saying that the heat in star-forming clouds may be hindering stellar formation.
article_snippet.sent: the heat in star-forming clouds may be hindering stellar formation say that the temperatures are likely too hot to allow reasonable amounts of star formation, which leads to the lower number of stars we observe in the cosmos today. '
article_snippet.sent: The amount of fuel for star formation outpaces the amount of stars 10 times, so these clusters should be really star-rich,' said Dr Michael McDonald, a Hubble Fellow in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT)
article_snippet.sent: You really need some mechanism to prevent gas from cooling, otherwise the universe would have 10 times as many stars.'
article_snippet.sent: Researchers say that for some galaxy clusters the intracluster gas may simply be too hot - on the order of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.