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Black hole winds may be robbing giant galaxies of their future stars
Astronomers using NASA- and JAXA-supported XRISM observations of galaxy NGC 4151 found evidence that supermassive black holes generate powerful winds that strip away star-forming material, potentially explaining why some massive galaxies have fewer stars than expected.
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