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    "headline": "A Black-Hole Jet Keeps the Red Potato From Cooking Stars",
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    "dek": "Chandra, Webb, VLT, and ALMA observations link a neighboring jet to turbulence around a galaxy 11.7 billion light-years away.",
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    "body_text": "Astronomers combined X-ray, infrared, optical, and radio observations of MQN01 J004131.9-493704, nicknamed the red potato. The galaxy sits in a dense early-universe intersection, yet forms fewer stars than its gas supply suggests. The team reports evidence that a jet from a neighboring supermassive black hole keeps surrounding gas turbulent and suppresses star formation. The mechanism is an interpretation of multi-observatory data, not a directly filmed interaction.",
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      "title": "Chandra X-ray Observatory via Newswise: Red potato galaxy",
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