but not all black holes are fed by gas from a merger. In spiral galaxies, for example, less gas tends to fall into the center, and the central black hole tends to have less energy. One of the ways ...

Jets influence star formation, distribute energy across vast distances, and serve as cosmic beacons for locating distant black holes. Additionally, they provide insights into the fundamental ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit ... causing in-falling material to heat ...

STEVE BENHAM, KATU digital content producer: I want to talk about the new way astronomers are finding black holes using Gaia data, but before we get into that ... gas or a star falling onto ...