The black hole is apparently contributing to the firestorm of new star formation taking place in the galaxy. The dwarf galaxy lies 30 million light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis.

An illustration shows a white dwarf whipping around the edge of a supermassive black hole. | Credit: NASA/Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnetitalic ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are on a collision course. The Chandra team explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...