The James Webb Space telescope recently turned its highly sophisticated lens towards galaxy GS-10578 or what is often referred to as 'Pablo’s Galaxy’. Now, after looking over the new James Webb Telescope data, experts say that’s likely because a supermassive black hole killed its star forming abilities.
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00:00The James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its highly sophisticated lens towards Galaxy
00:08GS10578, or what is often referred to as Pablo's Galaxy.
00:13It was believed to be dead as it no longer forms any new stars, and now astronomers finally
00:17know why.
00:18Pablo's Galaxy was interesting to researchers because it was formed in the very early days
00:22of the universe, and is an astounding 2 billion solar masses.
00:26However, it stopped producing stars between 12.5 to 11.5 billion years ago.
00:32Now, after looking over the James Webb Telescope data, experts say that's likely because
00:36a supermassive black hole killed its star-forming abilities.
00:40They say this happens when black holes continually grow in mass, eventually sucking in all of
00:44the star-forming gas that would otherwise produce stellar bodies.
00:47With the researchers writing, the black hole is killing this galaxy and keeping it dormant
00:52by cutting off the source of food the galaxy needs to form new stars.
00:56However, the experts say that this sort of changes what we thought we knew about galaxy
00:59quenching black holes.
01:01That's because Pablo's Galaxy still has the conventional galactic disk shape, meaning
01:05the supermassive black hole's turbulence hasn't deformed its structure.