"The [energy released from gas falling into the] the supermassive black hole is removing large amounts of gas very fast from ...

For a galaxy at its age, Pablo's Galaxy is massive. Formed during an early period in the universe's history and officially known as GS-10578, Pablo's Galaxy received its nickname from a scientist ...

Yet like a spiraling whirlpool, a black hole is currently removing so much gas from Pablo's Galaxy that it can no longer normally form stars. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Black holes are rarely isolated. Typically, they are surrounded by a massive amount of matter— gas left over after the black ...

Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole starving its galaxy of gas, halting star formation in the early universe.

A Milky Way-sized galaxy from the early universe appears to have stopped producing any new stars because a supermassive black hole at its center is blasting out all the material needed for stars ...

Like most large galaxies, it has a supermassive black hole at its centre. However, this galaxy is essentially 'dead': it has mostly stopped forming new stars. "Based on earlier observations ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole “starving” its host galaxy to death, offering new insight into the early universe. An international team led by the University of Cambridge ...

"We found the culprit. The black hole is killing this galaxy and keeping it dormant by cutting off the source of 'food' the galaxy needs to form new stars." Using the James Webb Space Telescope ...