"We found the culprit: the black hole is killing this galaxy," says d'Eugenio, who led the recent study, in a statement.
Using JWST's sensitive infrared instruments, D'Eugenio and his colleagues spotted dense streams of cold gas rushing away from the galaxy.
The supermassive black hole at the heart of Pablo's Galaxy is flinging the gas - which would otherwise be the raw material for billions of new stars - out into space.
Without dense clouds of interstellar gas, the galaxy can't form new stars, which means that once the stars now lighting up Pablo's Galaxy eventually burn out in a few billion years, it'll be good night forever.
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