With the help of Herschel Space Observatory and the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer attached to the Suzaku astronomy satellite, a team of researchers studied a galaxy F11119+3257, present 2.3 billion light years away.

The galaxy has a massive black hole at its center and it’s as big as 16 million of our suns. The researchers have found a link between the X-ray wind created by the black hole and the spreading of raw material.

In fact, NASA has also released a video of the same. “Scientists think ultraluminous infrared galaxies like F11119 represent an early phase in the evolution of quasars, a type of black-hole-powered galaxy with extreme luminosity across a broad wavelength range”, said NASA in a report about the study.

The researchers noticed gas coming out of the black hole at a speed of 170 million mph known as X-ray wind. The wind is taking place as the black hole is consuming the gas around it in the area known as the accretion disk.

The wind is also stirring a larger molecular outflow and the heat is giving rise to shock wave that clears out dust and gas. The finding acts as another piece of the puzzle with regard to how black holes connect to star formation in the galaxies that revolve around them.

Research team member Sylvain Veilleux, an astronomy professor at University of Maryland, was of the view that these connections might be indicating that black hole was providing some form of feedback that modulated star formation in the wider galaxy, but it was difficult to know the same.

But they have started to know the connection with the discovery of powerful molecular outflows of cold gas in galaxies with active black holes.