Webb telescope just snapped image of huge black hole gobbling things

Black holes are misunderstood.They're almost inconceivably dense objects, which grants them immense gravitational power. (If Earth was hypothetically crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across.) Not even light can escape, if it falls in. But black holes aren't incessantly sucking up everything in space like a vacuum cleaner (if so, we'd likely be in one). Things have to pass nearby to be affected. The black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, for example, isn't eating mu