{"id":116607,"date":"2020-12-03T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/galaxy-survives-black-holes-feast-goes-against-all-the-current-scientific-predictions"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:22:40","slug":"galaxy-survives-black-holes-feast-goes-against-all-the-current-scientific-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/galaxy-survives-black-holes-feast-goes-against-all-the-current-scientific-predictions","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Survives Black Hole\u2019s Feast \u2013 \u201cGoes Against All the Current Scientific Predictions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mf3QSEFVSZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hungriest of black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. This feasting process is so intense that it creates a highly energetic object called a quasar \u2013 one of the brightest objects in the universe \u2013 as the spinning matter is sucked into the black hole \u2019s belly. Now, researchers have found a galaxy that is surviving the black hole\u2019s ravenous forces by continuing to birth new stars \u2013 about 100 Sun-sized stars a year.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery from NASA \u2019s telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, can help explain how massive galaxies came to be, even though the universe today is dominated by galaxies that no longer form stars. The results are published in the <em>Astrophysical Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows us that the growth of active black holes doesn\u2019t stop star birth instantaneously, which goes against all the current scientific predictions,\u201d said Allison Kirkpatrick, assistant professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas and co-author on the study. \u201cIt\u2019s causing us to re-think our theories on how galaxies evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hungriest of black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. This feasting process is so intense that it creates a highly energetic object called a quasar \u2013 one of the brightest objects in the universe \u2013 as the spinning matter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}