This artist’s illustration shows a red, early-Universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its centre. Credit: NOIRLab/ NSF/ AURA/ J da Silva/ M Zamani. CC BY. The fastest-feeding black hole in the early Universe, which appears to be consuming...
Artist’s depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. They are both surrounded by an accretion disk of hot gas. Some of the material is ejected along the spin axis of each black hole. Confined by powerful magnetic fields, the...