Who's Your Daddy? New Scientist

"Supermassive black holes – the fathers of galaxies - space - 06 January 2010 - New Scientist: "ONCE upon a time, a vast cloud of cold gas was floating in the void of space, a patch of inert blackness against the even deeper blackness behind. Then, as if from nowhere, a thin jet of matter streaked towards it at ultra-high speed. It slammed into the cloud, compressing its matter and triggering a firestorm of star formation. What had once been a dormant gas cloud was now a full-blown galaxy.
Is this how a galaxy is born? David Elbaz's team of astrophysicists is convinced of it"