Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Supermassive Black Hole Has More Material Than it Can Consume

Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA

Black holes can accumulate planets and stars' worth of material, but even they have their limits. Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole which has reached that limit. Excess material is now being ejected from the vicinity around the black hole at nearly a third the speed of light. Astronomers found that about 10 Earth masses of material were added to the black hole's vicinity in 5 weeks, creating a ring of matter and feeding the outflow jets.



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