Supermassive black holes in ‘red geyser’ galaxies cause galactic warming

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 19:20 in Astronomy & Space

An international team of scientists, including the University of Kentucky’s Renbin Yan, have uncovered a new class of galaxies, called “red geysers,” with supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic that stars can’t form. Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of “galactic warming” has caused many galaxies to change from a […]

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