Astronomers Watch a Black Hole's Feeding Frenzy End with a Bad Case of Cosmic Indigestion
The Very Large Telescope tracked gas inflow, jet ejections and disc winds, showing the black hole expelled much of the material it drew in.
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Astronomers watch a black hole's feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe the violent outflow of material from a distant black hole. The observation once again shows that even the hungriest black holes are extremely messy eaters, while also revealing the "digestive processes" of these cosmic titans in unprecedented detail.The research focuses on the black hole system Swift J1727.8−1613, located around 8,800 light-years away, and a violent bout of cosmic i…
Black hole feeding frenzy ends in lingering cosmic indigestion
Black holes are often portrayed as cosmic gluttons that swallow everything that comes too close. But new observations of a dramatic black hole outburst—led by Warwick Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Noel Castro Segura—suggest the reality is much messier. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers followed the newly discovered black hole system Swift […] The post Black hole feeding frenzy ends in lingering cosmic in…
The enigmatic little red dots that James Webb photograph since 2022 are, in fact, supermassive black holes in a transient phase. This is revealed by a study led by Pierluigi Rinaldi of the Steward Observatory (University of Arizona) and published on July 29, 2026 in The Astrophysical Journal. The first clues of this darkened and compact population were offered by the now retired Spitzer space telescope, which detected bright infrared sources wit…
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