Dhaka, Jan. 15 -- Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array have uncovered how a distant galaxy known as "Pablo's Galaxy" was slowly starved to death by its own supermassive black hole.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, show that the galaxy, officially named GS-10578, lost the cold gas needed to form new stars after repeated outbursts from the black hole at its centre.

Pablo's Galaxy, located about 11 billion light-years away, was once a massive and active star-forming system roughly three billion years after the Big Bang. Scientists estimate it had a mass equivalent to about 200 billion suns.

Researchers found that powerful winds driven by the black hole pushed gas o...