Friday, September 6, 2013

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


Powerful jets discovered blowing material out of galaxy

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:27 AM PDT

Astronomers using a worldwide network of radio telescopes have found strong evidence that a powerful jet of material propelled to nearly light speed by a galaxy's central black hole is blowing massive amounts of gas out of the galaxy. This process, they said, is limiting the growth of the black hole and the rate of star formation in the galaxy, and thus is a key to understanding how galaxies develop.

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