Messier 101 (The Pinwheel Galaxy)

Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births

21 March 2022

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state-of-the-art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, researchers from the University of Cambridge have resolved a 20-year long debate on the formation of stars. 

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