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Ancient supermassive black hole is blowing galaxy-killing wind, James Webb Space Telescope finds

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Scientists have spotted the earliest powerful "galaxy-size" wind blowing from a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar.

The powerful wind is pushing gas and dust from its galaxy at incredible speeds, killing star birth in its host galaxy.

The winds stretch out from the black hole at their source for a staggering 7,500 light-years.

The material they shunt each year is equivalent to 300 suns at speeds equivalent to 6,000 times the speed of light.

A pre-print version of the team's research is featured on the paper repository arXiv.com.

They will continue to hunt them and may even uncover more that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang .

"We now aim to look for more such galaxy-scale, quasar-driven winds in the very early universe," Liu concluded.

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