NASA discover black hole that gives birth to stars in nearby galaxy
dailystar.co.ukNASA has made a startling discovery during the Hubble Space Telescope's latest round of research.Hubble, which is in the process of being replaced by the brand new James Webb telescope, first launched in 1990 although the idea for a telescope in space first surfaced a full 50 years beforehand in 1940.
The telescope has been taking a look at a galaxy called dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10, which is around 30million lightyears away.
Henize is little - it has only got around one 10th of the number of stars found in our own galaxy, known as the Milky Way. The latest discovery shows some very surprising behaviour for a black hole.When peering at dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10, the legendary telescope spotted that the black hole at its centre is creating stars rather than eating them up.
According to NASA, Amy Reines, the principal investigator of the Hubble observations published in Nature and the person who first published information about a black hole in the galaxy said: "Ten years ago, as a graduate student thinking I would spend my career on star formation, I looked at the data from Henize 2-10 and everything changed."From the beginning, I knew something unusual and special was happening in Henize 2-10, and now Hubble has provided a very clear picture of the connection between the black hole and a neighbouring star forming region located 230 light-years from the black hole".The connection in question is a flow of gas acting like an "umbilical cord to a bright stellar nursery".Hubble has picked up that the flow of gas is moving at around one million miles per hour, hitting into a dense cloud of gas like "a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out".
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