Blowtorch jets from a black hole drive starbirth

Supermassive black holes, weighing millions or even billions of times our Sun’s mass, are still only a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxies they inhabit. But in some cases, the central black hole is the tail wagging the dog. It seems that black holes can run hot or cold when it comes to either enhancing or squelching star birth inside a cluster of galaxies.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-11-blowtorch-jets-black-hole-starbirth.html