Sentences with phrase «gravitational maw»

Quasars are generally thought to be supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies, the black hole surrounded by a spinning disk of material being drawn inexorably into the black hole's gravitational maw.

Gas and dust pulled close to a black hole resists falling directly into the gravitational maw because it possesses rotational energy, or angular momentum — the same reason that Earth doesn't fall directly into the sun.

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A black hole has such a powerful gravitational force that it can drag surrounding matter — even planets, stars and light itself — into its maw [source: NASA].