{"id":3923987,"date":"2026-02-18T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/cosmic-predators-how-supermassive-black-holes-slow-star-growth-in-nearby-galaxies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:04:17","slug":"cosmic-predators-how-supermassive-black-holes-slow-star-growth-in-nearby-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/cosmic-predators-how-supermassive-black-holes-slow-star-growth-in-nearby-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic predators: How supermassive black holes slow star growth in nearby galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes\u2014thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies\u2014can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies millions of light-years away, according to a study led by Yongda Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-cosmic-predators-supermassive-black-holes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes\u2014thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies\u2014can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies millions of light-years away, according to a study led by Yongda Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}