A new study by Indian astronomers has revealed that supermassive black holes and the powerful jets they emit work in tandem to drive out gas from the centers of galaxies, effectively stalling the formation of new stars and influencing the overall evolution of galaxies.

The study, conducted by a team at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has shed fresh light on how energetic processes near black holes—both radiation and high-speed radio jets—combine to regulate star formation.

Using archival data from global observatories such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Very Large Array (VLA) in the United States, the researchers analyzed over 500 nearby galaxies that host active galactic nuclei (AGN

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