{"id":117253,"date":"2020-12-17T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-galaxy-is-making-new-stars-faster-than-its-black-hole-can-starve-them-for-fuel"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:51","slug":"a-galaxy-is-making-new-stars-faster-than-its-black-hole-can-starve-them-for-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-galaxy-is-making-new-stars-faster-than-its-black-hole-can-starve-them-for-fuel","title":{"rendered":"A Galaxy is Making New Stars Faster Than its Black Hole Can Starve Them for Fuel"},"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\/fThGKOgSo5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A monster lurks at the heart of many galaxies \u2013 even our own Milky Way. This monster possesses the mass of millions or billions of Suns. Immense gravity shrouds it within a dark cocoon of space and time \u2013 a supermassive black hole. But while hidden in darkness and difficult to observe, black holes can also shine brighter than an entire galaxy. When feeding, these sleeping monsters awaken transforming into a quasar \u2013 one of the Universe\u2019s most luminous objects. The energy a quasar radiates into space is so powerful, it can interfere with star formation for thousands of light years across their host galaxies. But one galaxy appears to be winning a struggle against its awoken blazing monster and in a recent paper published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/abb94a\">Astrophysical Journal<\/a>, astronomers are trying to determine how this galaxy survives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monster lurks at the heart of many galaxies \u2013 even our own Milky Way. This monster possesses the mass of millions or billions of Suns. Immense gravity shrouds it within a dark cocoon of space and time \u2013 a supermassive black hole. But while hidden in darkness and difficult to observe, black holes can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117253","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=117253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}