This is new?
I thought this was already generally accepted to be the case. Is it only news because there is a new pixelated image of it?
Space boffins have suggested the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy may have a powerful appetite for hot gas. The European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has captured far-infrared images which appear to show the black hole sucking in a huge cloud of gas. One astronomer said it looked as if the hole was " …
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Perhaps it is because looking at data all day is so boring, or that geeks watch too much sci-fi, but "devouring"?!!
If there is a pressure drop, things move to fill the vacuum. That is physics, not rampaging and ravenous behaviour by a sentient being.
Perhaps it is time for a move away from verbal skeuomorphism.
(A skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object made to resemble another material or technique - e.g. Apple virtual buttons made to look like domed, chrome edged physical buttons).