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NASA wants to look again at some distant galaxies.
When the James Webb Space Telescope launches, the space agency plans to use it to capture 3D images of three quasars at a distance and the host galaxies swirling around them. The new images, NASA hopes, will finally help explain how, exactly, these bizarre supermassive black holes shape and shape their galaxies.
All for one
Quasars are supermassive black holes that blow out as much energy as they feast that they can shine the galaxies that host them.
They have actually been active, making astronomers believe that they are disappearing new star evolution within their galaxies, because matter that would normally bind together to form a new star tends to explode due to its strong wind.
Cosmic research
The new images, which would be stitched together to analyze several different wavelengths of light, would give NASA its first 3D map of that cosmic wind. Because the wind is not symmetrical, NASA researchers say in a press release, they are too unpredictable to simulate in a computer and should instead be included in an image.
“Physically very small objects, supermassive black holes seem to have an enormous impact on the evolution of galaxies and ultimately on the way our universe looks today,” said Dominika Wylezalek, a researcher at the University of Heidelberg. t leads the NASA project, in the release.
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