Sargasso of the Sky

Galaxy Supercluster CL0016+16 is some Sargasso Sea of the Sky, the place where galaxies and the stars within those galaxies go to die.

they pull themselves together by gravity in a cemetery of much mass but no free gas to fuel the fertile balling up of new stars.

it is a mutual fatal attraction: without fresh gas floating by to make new stars, clumped galaxies starve.

as they huddle together in the dark, they slowly lose their flesh of compressed gas. as they starve down to galactic bone, they shed their leftovers, slinging them out, or swallow them in central black holes.

oh so slowly the lights wink out, sink into the dark. ..

ain’t it cold, oh so cold, out there, in the dark? ain’t it so seeping cold in here? ain’t it cold? oh...so... slowly... the lights. . .