1st black hole ever imaged by humanity is losing huge amount of energy through 'lightsaber' jets

1st black hole ever imaged by humanity is losing huge amount of energy through 'lightsaber' jets

A few years ago, astronomers saw for the first time a patch of cosmic darkness long thought to be unseeable — a black hole, a powerful, elusive beast so dense that not even light can escape its gravity. Black holes are known to gobble up anything and everything that ventures close to them — gas, stars, planets and even fellow black holes. But this fuzzy, donut-like black hole (later fine-tuned by AI into a skinny ring) in the galaxy M87 …