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Could black holes help form stars?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Effect of Gravity on the Cosmos

Some black holes are born from stars and then start eating up other stars. They can later on gobble up other stars and get bigger. There's a great example using X-ray telescopes that watch this happen to a black hole in another galaxy, 250 million light years from Earth. We've seen this happen also to like comments that have entered the solar system.

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