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Cosmic Robbers: Black Hole Jets May Cause Galaxy NGC 3801 To Die And Lose Its Stars
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 16:15
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Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds.
The findings, which relied on ultraviolet observations from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and a host of other instruments, fill an important gap in the current understanding of galactic evolution.
It has long been known that gas-rich spiral galaxies like our Milky Way smash together to create elliptical galaxies such as the one observed in the study. These big, round galaxies have very little star formation… Rest of article with all images here:
