A black hole at the center of a large galaxy has been seen attracting the motion of gas with its intense gravity and dominating the flow of gas towards it. As gas flows toward a black hole, it becomes squeezed, making it hotter and brighter, a phenomenon now confirmed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The celebrated vastness of Earth's oceans looks more like a droplet compared to a remote supermassive blackhole that contains 140 trillion times as much water.
Most of the huge black holes in the centers of galaxies in the past 11 billion years were not activated by galactic collisions, as had been previously thought, a new study reveals.
A new study has found no significant link between cosmic collisions and growth of black holes for at least the past eight billion years, meaning other, less dramatic phenomena are responsible.
David Fincher, the Oscar-nominated director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, is in early talks to log on to an untitled movie about the founders of the popular social networking site Facebook.