Weird black hole spewed star-forming jets 500 light years long

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Weird black hole spewed star-forming jets 500 light years long
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Black holes located in dwarf galaxies usually gobble up matter needed for forming stars, but now one has been seen seeding new stars through a huge plume of ionised gas

at Montana State University and his colleagues observed the black hole in a dwarf galaxy called Hen 2-10 spewing a plume of ionised gas nearly 500 light years long, stretching from the galactic centre to a cloud of gas on the galaxy’s edge where stars were forming.

“It’s a real breakthrough because it allows us to say with confidence that it is a [black hole] source as opposed to a supernova,” says

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