Galaxy Killer Black Hole Revealed By Webb Space Telescope

Francesco D’Eugenio, a researcher from Cambridge’s Kavli Institute for Cosmology, explained that the team of astronomers attempted to find a correlation between the black hole and Pablo’s Galaxy’s death. “Based on earlier observations, we knew this galaxy was in a quenched state: it’s not forming many stars given its size, and we expect there is a link between the black hole and the end of star formation,” D’Eugenio said in a statement.

“However, until the [James Webb Space Telescope], we haven’t been able to study this galaxy in enough detail to confirm that link, and we haven’t known whether this quenched state is temporary or permanent.”