https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and her team provided insights into how supermassive black holes affect galaxy evolution by driving interstellar gas out of galactic disks. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-webb-driven-black-hole-jets.html Astronomy Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:39:07 EST news652966742 A new study conducted by a group of astrophysicists led by Dr K. Dasyra suggests that black hole jets can affect the star formation in galaxies by both dispersing and heating large amounts of gas over large areas. The result is based on observations of the nearby galaxy IC5063, collected with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). https://phys.org/news/2016-11-black-hole-jets-star-formation.html Astronomy Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:00:01 EST news397985749 A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Kalliopi Dasyra discovered fast winds of molecular and atomic gas that were caused by the interaction of the jet of a supermassive black hole with interstellar medium clouds in the nearby galaxy IC5063. The winds are detected in four discrete regions near the jet, at distances as large as ~3000 light years away from the black hole. This discovery indicates that black hole jets can influence the evolution of galaxies by increasing the turbulence of the gas and suppressing the formation of new stars at large scales. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-jet-black-hole-multiple-nearby.html Astronomy Wed, 02 Dec 2015 06:02:41 EST news368258547