Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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In a surprise finding, astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of M87, a huge galaxy 54 million light years away, seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory.

The stars, called novae, are not caught inside the jet, but in a dangerous area near it.

A nova erupts in a double-star system where an aging, swelled-up, normal star spills hydrogen onto a burned-out white dwarf companion star. When the white dwarf has collected a big enough layer of hydrogen, it explodes out into space.

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer

Music Credit:
“Into Orbit” by Laurent Dury [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM] and Universal Production Music France, [SACEM] and Universal Production Music.

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