Supermassive black hole clears star-making gas from galaxy's core

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

Many nearby galaxies blast huge, wide-angled outpourings of material from their center, ejecting enough gas and dust to build more than a thousand stars the size of our sun every year. Astronomers have sought the driving force behind these massive molecular outflows, and now a team led by University of Maryland scientists has found an answer.

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