Incredible picture of a massive black hole that is so powerful it has prevented TRILLIONS of stars from forming Black whole is at the center of a gaseous cloud one quadrillion times the size of our sun Located in galaxy cluster RC J1532 more than 3.9billion light years away NASA has released a stunning image of a black hole that is so massive and so powerful that it has prevented trillions of stars from forming around it. The black hole is surrounded by super-heated gases - shown in purple. At the very center of the gas is a very galaxy cluster - that is home to the black hole. Galaxies can be seen swirling around - and bending into the black hole, pictured in yellow. The entire spectacular occurrence is located 3.9 billion light years from Earth in a galaxy cluster called RX J1532. Extreme power: The black hole can be seen in center of the galaxy cluster in the middle of the purple gaseous mass. Galaxy clusters can be seen in yellow The phenomenon was captured by a compilation of images taken by two of NASA most powerful space telescopes - the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy at the center of the gaseous cloud is massive, about a quadrillion - a thousand trillion - times the size of our sun. The black hole is one of the most powerful ever recorded. Black holes are rips in space time that prevent anything, including light, from escaping. They are formed when a massive star collapses in on itself after its life cycle ends. NASA astronomers have deduced, with the help of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, that the black hole is beginning to drill massive holes in the gaseous mass. The black hole is creating 'cavities' in the gas - show by gaps in the purple hue - that is keeping the gas super-heated and preventing stars from forming The holes, which can be seen on either size of the black hole, are each the size of our own Milky Way - about 100,000 light years across. Astronomers believe that the 'cavities' in the gas are releasing shock fronts into the gas that keep it super-heated - and prevent stars from forming. The energy is the result of the cavities expanding rapidly. That, scientists believe, is how the powerful black hole is able to create a massive - dead space in the galaxy cluster.