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Black holes get a bad rep; they’re seen
as hungry monsters that gobble up planets

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and stars.

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But NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found
new evidence of a black hole creating stars

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rather than destroying them!

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Hubble recently captured images of gas launched
by a black hole and slamming into a dense

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cocoon of gas within a dwarf galaxy.

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While black holes have monstrous gravitational
pull, material falling in toward the black

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hole can sometimes get redirected by magnetic
fields into outflowing gas streams and jets.

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The “outflows” of supermassive black holes
in the center of larger galaxies are too fast

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to allow star formation.

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But the black hole of this dwarf galaxy is
smaller, and its slower outflow compressed

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the dense cocoon of gas enough to create new
stars.

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Dwarf galaxy black holes could serve as a
comparison for black holes in the early universe,

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when they were just beginning to form and
grow.

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While we don’t have all the answers, discoveries
like this one set us on a path to understanding

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more about the universe!