Dense molecular gas disks drive the growth of supermassive black holes—Are supernova explosions the key?
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
A joint team of University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators, using ALMA and other telescopes that utilize radio waves for space observation, revealed that dense molecular gas disks a few hundred light years in scale located at the centers of galaxies supply gas to supermassive black holes situated within them. This finding provides important insights on the growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time.