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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