Black holes "blow" hot matter

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Hungry black holes

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NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down

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Supermassive black holes are cosmic titans that sit at the hearts of all large galaxies.

They are subject to violent outbursts, launching powerful twin jets of material that stretch well above and below the planes of their host galaxies.

These jets strike hot gas between galaxies in galaxy clusters, called the "intracluster medium" This allows complex filamentary structures to form from both hot ionized gas and cooler gas.

This allows cool gas to fall back toward the center of the galactic cluster, feeding the supermassive black hole.

Cool filaments of gas are thought to supply the building blocks of new stars.

The relationship uncovered could be integral to galaxy growth as well as supermassive black hole growth.

The results were possible thanks to an innovative technique involving Chandra data that allows hot filaments to be distinguished from other structures.

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