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Description: Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in a new light: fostering, rather than suppressing, star formation. Hubble imaging and spectroscopy of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright star birth region like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars. Astronomers have previously debated that a dwarf galaxy could have a black hole analogous to the supermassive black holes in larger galaxies. Further study of dwarf galaxies, which have remained small over cosmic time, may shed light on the question of how the first seeds of supermassive black holes formed and evolved over the history of the universe. For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Music Credits: “Champagne Age” by Damon Bradley [BMI] via Network Production Music Publishing [BMI] and Universal Production Music This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14076. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14076. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html. See more Hubble videos on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN Follow NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: · Facebook: facebook.com/NASAHubble · Twitter: twitter.com/NASAHubble · Instagram: instagram.com/NASAHubble · Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nasahubble --- If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr flickr.com/photos/gsfc