Illustration of a supermassive black gap
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Supermassive black holes appear to cease stars forming of their monumental host galaxies – and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have caught them in the act for the first time.
Many of the most large galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood are in a “quiescent” state, the place no new stars appear to have been born for a very long time. Astronomers have lengthy suspected that the supermassive black holes at the centre of many galaxies could be accountable by by some means disturbing the clouds of gasoline …