Lost Japanese Spacecraft Shares Groundbreaking View of Galaxy Group

Like a confectioner trying to reach the right consistency in a sweet concoction, a supermassive black hole is vigorously stirring the gas within a collection of galaxies to keep star formation at a minimum. The new finding, revealed by the doomed spacecraft Hitomi, may help solve the question of why so few stars form within collections of hundreds or thousands of galaxies. Hitomi measured the motion of gas in the center of the Hitomi measured the motion of gas in the center of the the Perse