Wednesday, January 29, 2014

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


Active supermassive black holes revealed in merging galaxies

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:43 AM PST

Astronomers have conducted infrared observations of luminous, gas-rich, merging galaxies to study active, mass-accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs). They found that at least one SMBH almost always becomes active and luminous by accreting a large amount of material.

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