Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate

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What happened

Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars.

These stars form from cold, dense gas.

Every large galaxy, including the Milky Way, is wrapped in a huge envelope of gas called the circumgalactic medium, or CGM.

Key facts

  • Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars.
  • Reported by Phys.org and published Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:00:01 UTC.

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