Astronomers' Discovery of Supermassive Black Holes Gave Birth to Stars May Answer How Galaxies Evolve from Scratch
A new discovery by the astronomers concluding that the Supermassive black holes don't just destroy stars but also give birth to new stars in its extreme environment. According to the astronomers, the new discovery will have more depth understanding in how galaxies evolve from the scratch.
Astronomers use the ESO ( European Southern Observatory's) Large Telescope and have discovered that the stars are forming in masses of particles and dust within the hash 'winds' of the supermassive black holes. The materials were routinely blasted out from the holes which made up the very core of galaxies.
The researchers claimed that they have used the fellow spectroscopic instrument, MUSE or the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, and the X-shooter to study the ongoing collision, 600 million light years from Earth between the two galaxies.
In the study, the center of the southern galaxy, colossal winds of materials are exploding out of a supermassive black hole. The act was driven by the great amount of energy of its destructive nature wherein the winds are also driven by the black hole chewing up the nearby matter and leading to the birth of new stars, The Space Reported has reported.
The new formations of the stars by the supermassive black hole are much hotter and brighter than the stars found in stellar nurseries due to the tremendous activity in the area. According to Roberto Maiolino, the team leader from the University of Cambridge stated that the astronomers have thought that conditions within these outflows could actually be right for star formation.
He then continued that no one ever has witnessed it happening as it is a very difficult observation. He claimed that the result was very exciting because it shows how unambiguously stars are being created inside the outflows of supermassive black holes. Mail Online reported that when stars born, they quickly caught up in high-velocity winds that created them.
According to the reports, the discovery will completely change how they look at the galaxy as new information has arrived. Maiolino shared that if the formation of stars occurred in most galactic outflows of the supermassive black hole, then this could convey a completely new scenario for the better understanding of galaxy evolution.
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