Tuesday 31 March 2015

Black hole winds pull the plug on star formation

TIME AND SPACE
Black hole winds pull the plug on star formation
Paris (ESA) Mar 30, 2015 - Astronomers using ESA's Herschel space observatory have found that the winds blowing from a huge black hole are sweeping away its host galaxy's reservoir of raw star-building material. Found at the hearts of most galaxies, supermassive black holes are extremely dense and compact objects with masses between millions and billions of times that of our Sun. Many are relatively passive, like th ... more


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