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Are new galaxies being formed today?

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The youngest galaxy observed thus far is estimated to be 400 million years after the Big Bang. It seems to me that it would have started forming before that observed time frame, maybe by a couple hundred million years. In thinking about this, a several questions popped up.

1. How long after the Big Bang were the rest of the Billions upon Billion galaxies that we have today came into form?
2. Are new galaxy being formed today?
3. Has new galaxy formation ran it's course?
4. As galaxies crash into each other, or die, it seems to me that there are less in number today than in the past?
 

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The youngest galaxy observed thus far is estimated to be 400 million years after the Big Bang. It seems to me that it would have started forming before that observed time frame, maybe by a couple hundred million years. In thinking about this, a several questions popped up.

1. How long after the Big Bang were the rest of the Billions upon Billion galaxies that we have today came into form?
2. Are new galaxy being formed today?
3. Has new galaxy formation ran it's course?
4. As galaxies crash into each other, or die, it seems to me that there are less in number today than in the past?
In simple sequence of causation, everything, to include galaxy formation, began with what began it all —the supposed big bang AND before (the logic of cause and effect —not necessarily time sequence) that. The galaxies began forming from the beginning, though perhaps not very obviously. As one writer rather poetically put it, something like this: "The seeds of everything we see now began with the big bang."

But that has little relevance (at least to me) to the specifics of your four questions.
 
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Are new galaxies being formed today?

No.

Tomorrow.

Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

And they won't be "formed" like in the natural sense, they will be created in the Biblical sense.
 
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