Monday, 27 March 2017

Stars discovered forming in extreme black-hole-driven environment

Artist's impression of the outflow from a supermassive black hole

A team of European astronomers says it has made the first confirmed observation of stars forming in the powerful outflow of material hurled out by a galaxy's central supermassive black hole. This outflow represents an extreme environment for star formation, and the presence of stars within it could help answer a number of puzzling questions, including how our galaxy, and others like it, got their shape.

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