Black Holes May Be The Ultimate Cosmic Recyclers | WION World DNA

[00:00:00]Well, the deepest, darkest enigmas of our universe are finally stepping into the light.

[00:00:05]>> The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a groundbreaking cosmic breakthrough, piercing the veil of deep space to solve a multi-decade paradox.

[00:00:14]Astronomers have finally uncovered how the most destructive monsters in existence sustain their terrifying growth. Well, here's a report that explains all of that. Take a look.

[00:00:39]>> Imagine a place where gravity becomes so powerful that the laws of everyday physics begin to break down.

[00:00:46]A place where planets and even stars can be torn apart.

[00:00:50]Where entire clouds of gas disappear forever.

[00:00:55]Where even light cannot escape. That is a black hole.

[00:01:05]Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the universe.

[00:01:09]They are invisible because they emit no light. Scientists detect them only through their enormous gravitational pull and the effect they have on the matter around them.

[00:01:19]The largest of them all are super massive black holes. These cosmic monsters sit at the center of almost every large galaxy including our own Milky Way.

[00:01:32]Some contain millions, even billions of times the mass of our sun. For decades, astronomers have struggled with [music] one fundamental question.

[00:01:42]How do these giants continue growing [music] when they often blast away the very gas they need to survive? The answer has remained [music] one of astronomy's greatest mysteries until now.

[00:02:01]>> Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the violent winds produced around a feeding black hole do not simply push material away [music] into space.

[00:02:13]Instead, much of that gas cools down, slows down, and falls back towards the black hole.

[00:02:20]It is a remarkable cosmic recycling system. Rather than starving themselves, supermassive black holes are effectively recycling part of their own fuel supply.

[00:02:30]The discovery explains how [music] these objects can remain active for millions of years, steadily consuming gas while continuing to shape the evolution of entire galaxies. [music] It also changes the way scientists understand the relationship between black holes and the galaxy surrounding them.

[00:02:53]Far from being simple cosmic destroyers, black holes may also regulate how galaxies [music] grow by controlling the movement of gas, the raw material [music] needed to create new stars.

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