Astronomers have previously theorised that a thick ring of dust, known as a torus, surrounds the supermassive black holes at the centre of huge galaxies
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Magnetic fields manage a black hole’s feeding time
Magnetic fields have been seen to manipulate the material surrounding a black hole by observing the nearby galaxy Cygnus A
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New mysterious object found in familiar galaxy
Radio observations of Cygnus A show an unusual object near the centre, not shown in prior radio observations.