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Black holes—like monstrous, cosmic super villains—habitually wreak havoc in space, tearing stars to pieces, consuming anything that comes too close, even preventing light from escaping their clutches. The role black holes play on the universal stage is mostly a destructive one.
But foiling this villainous depiction, researchers recently discovered a cluster of newly forming stars in dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10—stars whose birth was fostered, not thwarted, by the outflow of a relatively small black hole (yes, black holes have particle jet outflows above and below their massive “disks”) that previously laid undetected.
In cosmic terms, the galaxy Henize 2-10, which lies approximately 30 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pyxis, is relatively small, having about one-tenth the number of stars as our Milky Way. This dwarf galaxy and its newfound black hole, together being analogous to the lives of larger celestial behemoths, could help solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes today first formed at younger stages of the universe.
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