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Supermassive black hole blasts star-making gas from galaxy’s core

26 March 2015 Astronomy Now

Many galaxies blast huge, wide-angled flows of material outward from their centres, pushing to their outer edges enough dust and gas each year that otherwise would have formed more than a thousand stars the size of our Sun. A team led by University of Maryland scientists has found the driving force behind these massive molecular outflows.

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  • Supermassive black holes not impressive enough? Try the ultramassive version
    29 March 2023
  • James Webb’s infrared vision lets astronomers take an exoplanet’s temperature
    28 March 2023
  • NASA gearing up for OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample recovery
    27 March 2023
  • A simpler, more mundane explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s strange behaviour
    23 March 2023
  • Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander slips into lunar orbit
    22 March 2023
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