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Dissecting Supermassive Black Holes: The Feedback Loop

An infographic, "Dissecting Supermassive Black Holes: The Feedback Loop," shows how active supermassive black holes affect their galaxies in five steps.

Learn how active supermassive black holes affect their galaxies—and everything up to hundreds of thousands of light-years away—over millions of years.

Explore our image collection to find more infographics in this series, including "Converting Fuel," "Pinpointing the Flows," and "Conditions for Star Formation," and the complete “Dissecting Supermassive Black Holes” infographic available to admire, print, and post on your wall!

  • Release Date
    March 17, 2021
  • Credit
    Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

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Last Updated
Aug 28, 2025
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Laura Betz
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
laura.e.betz@nasa.gov

Image Credit

NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)