Wired·3 min read·medium
It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel
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Teruyuki Hayakawa
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Researchers have identified a potential mechanism explaining how black holes maintain their fuel supply despite ejecting powerful energy jets. Observations of the NGC 4696 galaxy suggest that gas blown away by these jets cools and condenses into filaments that eventually fall back into the black hole.
Black holes grow by consuming surrounding matter, but in the process they also eject powerful energy jets. These jets heat the surrounding gas, delaying the formation of new stars and affecting the growth of the galaxy as a whole.
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