The observation once again shows that even the hungriest black holes are extremely messy eaters, while also revealing the "digestive processes" of these cosmic titans in unprecedented detail. They also found that the most massive outflows of material happened when the black hole's feeding activity was much lower than previously thought. The upshot of this is the conclusion that black holes aren't quite the "bottomless pits" scientists had assumed, but are far more like complex cosmic digestive systems. (Image credit: Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA)The resulting "movie" of this feeding black hole revealed that as the cosmic titan blasted out jets, the accretion disk slowly feeding it underwent changes of its own. "A significant fraction of the meal may never reach the black hole at all, changing our understanding of how binary stars in galaxies evolve."