Stuffing Yer Holes: Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles.

“A monstrous black hole’s rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least,

that’s the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing in the hub of the nearby

galaxy NGC 4438. These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy’s central region clearly show

one of the bubbles rising from a dark band of dust.” And: Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation. “Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren’t

simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars

controlled by their host galaxies in the early formative years of the

universe. These results, gleaned from a NASA Hubble Space Telescope

census of more than 30 galaxies, are painting a broad picture of a

galaxy’s evolution and its long and intimate relationship with its central

giant black hole. Though much more analysis remains, an initial look at

Hubble evidence favors the idea that titanic black holes did not precede

a galaxy’s birth but instead co-evolved with the galaxy by trapping a

surprisingly exact percentage of the mass of the central hub of stars

and gas in a galaxy.”