Can Black Holes Produce Galaxies?

-- Benjamin | March 31, 2021

Question:

I was reading about how black holes and how they have many smaller bursts that happen. could a supermassive blackhole have created galaxies with these bursts and when this super massive blackhole dies, it implodes and sucks back all of the galaxies it made the repreting the cycle?

-- Benjamin

Answer:

The bursts observed from black holes tend to be due to energy emitted during an accretion event, where the black hole gobbles up a chunk of matter which is turned into energy in the strong gravitational field of the black hole. These chunks of matter are not nearly as large or massive as galaxies.

-- Jeff Mangum

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