Dusty surprise around giant black hole Date: June 20, 2013 Source: European Southern Observatory - ESO Summary: ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When galaxies collide, massive amounts of gas and dust create a cocoon of debris around the ...

Magnetic field traces gas and dust swirling around supermassive black hole. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 02 / 180221122944.htm.

Dust escaping from black holes may go on to form stars Published: June 21, 2013 11:24am EDT. Emily ... The dust particles and gas form doughnut-shaped rings around black holes, ...

The answer is no. To feed and grow, black holes actually need a little luck, and a big, bright disk of matter around them. "Often we think of black holes as sucking matter in, like a vacuum cleaner.

(Phys.org) —ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than ...

Rather than finding all of the glowing dust in a doughnut-shaped torus around the black hole, astronomers discovered that much of it is located above and below the torus.