Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process. Anyone who has experienced the blistering pain associated with biting ...

it's pulled into the black hole's accretion disk, which funnels the gas toward the hole itself. Essentially, the cool gas becomes the next course in the black hole's meal. NASA notes that these ...

This causes a reaction in the black hole that shoots jets into the gas cloud. These jets cool down the purple cloud to create new pink veins. The process then repeats time and again. The ...

This supports a theory suggesting that outbursts launched by black holes can cause the hot gas around them to cool and form relatively fine filaments of still-warm gas. The warm gas falls toward ...

It turns out that black holes may perform the cosmic equivalent of this routine, "blowing" on blistering hot matter before they gobble it down. This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was ...

Scientists have found that supermassive black holes self-grow by regulating the cooling of surrounding hot gas, forming warm gas filaments that they consume. This discovery enhances the ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

Artistic illustration of the thick dust torus surrounding a supermassive black holes and its accretion disks. Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC) By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR ...