Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

[mella l]

Oh this is so fascinating to the lay person who doesn't even know the words. But thank you for sharing this. When I look at the artistic rendition it comes to my minds eye that perhaps the black hole accretion disk is the big bang and the jet streams are expelling streams of new galaxies. Fascinating as fascinating as the earth rebirthing itself. The National Geographic youtube link is exceptional too!

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Originally posted by TomK

Very much related to the above:

"New Keck Observatory Instrument to Zero In On What Is Stunting Galaxy Growth"

http://www.keckobservatory.org/agn/

"[i]Astronomers are using a powerful new probe at W. M. Keck

"Coil is using KCWI to gather observational evidence necessary to support the theory that supermassive black holes cause a chain reaction in their host galaxy that ceases new star formation. This theory has currently only been proposed through computer modeling and remains to be proven with observational data."

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mella l
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