James Webb Spots A Supermassive Black Hole Feeding

James Webb Spots A Supermassive Black Hole Feeding

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope has caught a supermassive black hole in the middle of lunch. According to ScienceDaily, using material from Michigan State University, the new James Webb images show long strands of gas connecting a galaxy’s hot outer atmosphere to a fast-spinning disk around the black hole at its centre. For South Africans who spent the week looking mostly at petrol slips and WhatsApp chaos, deep space has kindly provided som…

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals How Black Holes Feed Themselves

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how black holes feed themselves A gas filament stretching 800 light-years across, moving at roughly 1.3 million miles per hour, may finally explain one of astronomy’s most stubborn puzzles: how supermassive black holes keep growing even as they appear to starve themselves. A supermassive black hole sits at the centre of each galaxy, with some lying dormant while others are active and spewing matter out through …