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Could black holes help form stars?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Physics of Dwarf Galaxies

Some theories of why galaxies stop making stars could be due to the black holes at their center. These can also heat up the stellar nurseries too much so they're not really primed for making stars anymore. The next time somebody asks me, like, hey, are you going to have more kids? I can just say we're quenched. We got too hot. Exactly. This is the astronomical equivalent of teenagers having kids because now you're having dwarf galaxies making lots of stars in their stellar nurseries.

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