‘Death by a thousand cuts’: young galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies
12 January 2026
Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest ‘dead’ galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole can slowly starve a galaxy rather than tear it apart.
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