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Could black holes help form stars?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Dwarf Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Sucks in Gas

A million mile per hour burps of gas into the stellar nursery are sparking the birth of new stars in this dwarf galaxy. But the gas is not coming from the black hole. It's actually shooting radiation, not gas, but that radiation is pushing one cloud of gas into another cloud of gas around the black hole at a million miles per second per hour.

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