Webb Catches Supermassive Black Hole Feeding from Cosmic Gas Streams

Jul 14, 2026 - 15:30
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Webb Catches Supermassive Black Hole Feeding from Cosmic Gas Streams
This Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 4696. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Fabian.

New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a spinning disk around a supermassive black hole 800 light-years across.

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