Universe's Most Powerful Gravitational Trap Gets Explained | WION News

[00:00:00]The deepest, darkest, enigmas of our universe are finally stepping into the light. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a groundbreaking cosmic breakthrough, piercing the veil of deep space to solve a multi-decade paradox.

[00:00:16]Astronomers have finally uncovered how the most destructive monsters in existence sustain their terrifying growth.

[00:00:24]Here's a report.

[00:00:41]>> Imagine a place where gravity becomes so powerful [music] that the laws of everyday physics begin to break down.

[00:00:48]A place where planets [music] and even stars can be torn apart.

[00:00:52]Where entire clouds of gas disappear forever.

[00:00:56]Where even light cannot escape. That is a black hole.

[00:01:07]Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the universe.

[00:01:11]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.

[00:01:21]The largest of them all are supermassive black holes. These cosmic [music] monsters sit at the center of almost every large galaxy, including our own Milky Way.

[00:01:34]Some contain millions, even billions of times the mass of our sun. For decades, astronomers have struggled with one fundamental question.

[00:01:44]How do these giants continue [music] growing 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.

[00:02:03]Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the violent winds produced around a feeding black hole do not simply [music] push material away into space.

[00:02:14]Instead, much of that gas cools down, slows down, and falls back towards the black hole.

[00:02:21]It is a remarkable cosmic recycling system. Rather than starving themselves, supermassive black holes are effectively recycling part of their own fuel supply.

[00:02:32]The discovery explains [music] how these objects can remain active for millions of years, steadily consuming gas while continuing to shape the evolution of entire galaxies.

[00:02:47]It also changes the way scientists understand the relationship between black holes >> [music] >> and the galaxy surrounding them.

[00:02:55]Far from being simple [music] cosmic destroyers, black holes may also regulate how galaxies grow by controlling the movement of gas, the raw material [music] needed to create new stars.

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