Supermassive Black Holes Supersoaking Other Galaxies

Supermassive black holes can be terrible neighbors. New research shows that their powerful jets of charged particles can shut down star formation in neighboring galaxies within the galaxy cluster, which is just plain rude. Closer to home, our own Down Quark Audrey Martin is part of a study shedding new light (with the James Webb Space Telescope) on the mysterious L type asteroids, that formed at very high temperatures early in our solar system's history.

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Supermassive Black Holes Supersoaking Other Galaxies is an episode from Walkabout the Galaxy by Joshua Colwell.

This episode is 38:59 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2026.

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