Black holes are best known for pulling matter in. But a distant supermassive black hole, observed as it was when the Universe was less than a billion years old, has been seen pushing gas out of its host galaxy.
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Mortlock, D. Outflows from the first quasars. Nature 489, 42–43 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489042a
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