Tag: black hole feedback


  • Cosmic Seesaws: How Black Holes Balance Winds and Jets to Shape the Universe

    Cosmic Seesaws: How Black Holes Balance Winds and Jets to Shape the Universe

    Introduction: Black holes as cosmic regulators Black holes are often imagined as voracious devourers, but new observations from a NASA X-ray instrument reveal a subtler role: these enigmatic objects act like cosmic seesaws. They tip toward powerful winds that push matter away or toward tightly focused jets that shoot matter and energy into intergalactic space.…

  • Death by a thousand cuts: How JWST Revealed a Black Hole Starving Pablo’s Galaxy

    Death by a thousand cuts: How JWST Revealed a Black Hole Starving Pablo’s Galaxy

    Unveiling a Quiet Cosmic Death In a dramatic display of cosmic physics, astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to watch a young galaxy gradually lose its ability to form stars. At the heart of this quiet catastrophe lies a supermassive black hole whose influence spreads…