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NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy
Release date: Tuesday, January 13, 2026 5:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
A specialized technique may change what scientists thought about how much material black holes eject.
Supermassive black holes are known to both consume and eject matter during their most active periods. Based on previous observations, astronomers theorized that Circinus’ active black hole ejected a much larger amount of matter in the form of outflows than they took in. However, a highly specialized observation mode on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun to change what some astronomers think about the amount of matter lost to outflows from some black holes.
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