Supermassive Black Holes News
The active galactic nucleus is a compact region at the center of a newly discovered galaxy
The active galactic nuclei release huge amounts of ionized particles and energy into the galaxy and its environment
These ultimately contribute to the growth of the medium around the galaxy and ultimately the evolution of the galaxy itself.
The dwarf galaxies under observation were still accumulating gas which should re-start star formation in a red, dead galaxy but wasn't.
The study published in the journal Nature Astronomy sheds light on a class of black holes having a mass upwards of one million times the mass of the Sun.
SOFIA flies above 99 percent of the Earth's water vapour, enabling the research group to characterise the properties of the torus-shaped dust structures at far-infrared wavelengths.
When a black hole swallows too much, the excess matter is converted into two jet-flows perpendicular to the accretion disk of the black hole, which is like a glutton with a bloated belly belching.
Scientists have discovered supermassive black holes in two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
The findings come after a similar feature was found in another ultra-compact dwarf galaxy three years ago.
Such galactic outflows are driven by the huge energy output from the active and turbulent centres of galaxies.
Supermassive black holes are millions to billions times more massive than our Sun.
Monster black holes, it seems, also sometimes lurk behind gas and dust, hiding from the gaze of most telescopes.
Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of galactic warming has caused many galaxies to change from a lively place where new stars formed every now and then to a quiet place devoid of fresh young stars.
The jet, found in the system known as B3 0727+409, is at least 300,000 light years.
The only way it could get larger is if a star happened to fall straight in or another black hole merged with it.
The new research is important for understanding the growth and evolution of massive black holes and their host galaxies.
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