Black Hole Fountains
Where once were donuts, now there may be fountains. Not literally, unfortunately, but new astronomical observations are rewriting scientists’ conceptions of what the area around a black hole looks like, and the new evidence seems to lean heavily away from the morning delicacy.

Scientists estimate that most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center, pulling in everything around them with tremendous gravitational forces. Up until now, astronomers believed t