BLACK HOLE

Black Hole Attracts Gas With Intense Gravity

NASA's Chandra Observatory Images Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole
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.
What Activates Supermassive Black Holes

What Activates Supermassive Black Holes?

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.
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