
Could black holes help form stars?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Black Hole and Star Formation
The black hole is just pushing the gas that's already there. Or is it accelerating slinging it around and then pushing into a cloud of gas? Is it just emitting radiation and that's pushing one cloud into another cloud? It's a little bit of both. Some of it slams into this stellar nursery, this cocoon of gas that exists already in the galaxy. But doing it gently enough not to overheat this nursery. You know, star formation is surprisingly fragile.
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