This is How Supermassive Black Holes Feed Themselves

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 Hlavacek-Larrondo et al. 2026.

Astronomers may have found the missing link in the SMBH feeding process. New observations with the JWST show that a galaxy's circumnuclear disk, which feeds gas into its black hole, is connected to a much larger network of filaments. Cool gas flows through these filaments into the SMBH's sphere of influence.

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