A Wobbling Black Hole Jet Could Starve Its Galaxy of New Stars
TL;DR
Astronomers have observed a precessing, high-velocity jet from a supermassive black hole in VV 340a heating and ejecting gas across the galaxy, potentially quenching star formation; the outflow rate is about 19 solar masses per year, and multiwavelength data from JWST, Keck, VLA, and ALMA reveal how such black-hole activity can reshape galactic evolution.
- This Black Hole Jet Is So Powerful, It’s Shutting Down an Entire Galaxy The Daily Galaxy
- Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-Wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet Universe Today
- A Nearby Galaxy Is Being Torn Apart by Its Own Supermassive Black Hole SciTechDaily
- “This Was a Serendipitous Discovery": A Galactic “Misfit” is Revealing Anomalous Activity Astronomers Never Expected The Debrief
- The NSF Very Large Array Helps Reveal Record-Breaking Stream of Super-Heated Gas from Nearby Galaxy | Newswise Newswise
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