Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole throwing a temper tantrum on a galactic scale as it feeds, figuratively "flipping the table" and cutting off its parent galaxy's gas supply needed to birth stars.
The table-flipping behavior comes in the form of an ultrafast wind emerging from the lightly snacking supermassive black hole, which sits in a distinctly average galaxy. The galaxy is named Markarian 817 (Mrk 817) and is located 430 million light-years away in the constellation of Draco; the situation at hand was detected by the European Space Agency (ESA)'s XMM-Newton space telescope.
