{"id":773560,"date":"2023-11-15T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773560"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:01:54","slug":"jwst-may-have-seen-black-holes-suppressing-the-creation-of-new-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773560","title":{"rendered":"JWST may have seen black holes suppressing the creation of new stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Illustration of a supermassive black hole<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Stuart Thomson\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Supermassive black holes seem to stop stars forming in their enormous host galaxies \u2013 and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have caught them in the act for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the most massive galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood are in a \u201cquiescent\u201d state, where no new stars seem to have been born for a long time. Astronomers have long suspected that the supermassive black holes at the centre of many galaxies might be responsible by somehow disturbing the clouds of gas\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2389145-jwst-may-have-seen-black-holes-suppressing-the-creation-of-new-stars\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration of a supermassive black hole Stuart Thomson\/Alamy Supermassive black holes seem to stop stars forming in their enormous host galaxies \u2013 and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}