Massive black holes halt star birth in distant galaxies Above is...
9 May 2012, 19:02 UTC
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Massive black holes halt star birth in distant galaxies
Above is a picture from the new Nature paper led by Dr Mat Page of MSSL, written as part of the HerMES consortium. The yellow blobs are light from star forming regions in galaxies (from the Herschel Space Observatory’s 250µm and 350µm bands) and the blue are X-ray sources showing where black holes are growing (from the Chandra X-ray Observatory from 0.5-8 keV). Page et al found that the galaxies with the fastest growing black holes at their centre have less stars forming in them than one would expect. This implies that radiation from the accretion disk around black holes hinder stars formation.
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