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Tereza Pultarova

HISTORICAL FACTS: Black holes can squash star formation james webb space telescope finds | History Defined

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that supermassive black holes suppress star formation in maturing galaxies.

The team used the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), analyzed 19 galaxies that are part of the Spiderweb protocluster, one of the best studied galaxy groups in the universe, which lies some 11 billion light-years away from Earth.

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