02/24/2017 12:29 PM EST
Astronomers using the NSF-funded Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and its galaxy, located about 5.7 billion light-years from Earth. Powerful radio jets from the black hole - which normally suppress star formation - are stimulating cold gas production in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas, which could eventually fuel future star birth and feed the black hole itself. Source National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Black-hole powered jets forge fuel for star formation
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