Overview

• Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) show black holes can cool surrounding gas to fuel themselves.
• The study examined seven galaxy clusters, including Perseus and Centaurus, revealing filaments of hot and warm gas linked to black hole activity.
• Black hole outbursts cool hot gas into warm filaments, some of which flow back into the black hole, creating a feedback loop of feeding and cooling.
• Researchers confirmed a correlation between the brightness of hot and warm gas, supporting the model of this self-sustaining process.
• The findings also connect gas filaments in galaxy clusters to processes observed in jellyfish galaxies, suggesting a shared cosmic mechanism.