BLACK HOLES COULD HELP STAR FORMATION, SHOWS HUBBLE TELESCOPE RESEARCH
According
to a recent study based on Hubble Space Telescope results, black holes can
sometimes go against their all-absorbing nature and aid creation. A
supermassive black hole in the centre of a dwarf galaxy 30 million light-years
away was discovered to be creating stars rather than swallowing it, according
to the findings. According to NASA, the black hole appears to be contributing
to a firestorm of new star formation in the Henize 2-10 galaxy in the southern
constellation Pyxis.
Black
holes, which are found at the centres of huge galaxies like our own, the Milky
Way, have long been thought to prevent rather than promote star formation.
However, this one-million-solar-mass black hole is causing a massive number of
stars to form. The little Henize 2-10 galaxy was the subject of a ten-year
disagreement among astronomers, according to NASA. The question was then
whether dwarf galaxies might host black holes comparable to those observed in
bigger galaxies. Henize 2-10 has only one-tenth the amount of stars found in
the Milky Way, according to this new finding.
NASA
said in a blog post that researchers published their findings in the Nature
magazine this week. "I felt something strange and special was going on in
Henize 2-10 from the start. And now, thanks to Hubble, we have a clear image of
the connection between the black hole and a nearby star-forming region 230
light-years away "Amy Reines, the new Hubble research's primary scientist,
said
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