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    Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars with Supercomputer Simulations

    August 18, 2021, Categories  Uncategorized

    Distribution of gas across scales, with the gas density increasing from purple to yellow. The top left panel shows a large region containing tens of galaxies (6 million light-years across). Subsequent panels zoom in progressively into the nuclear region of the most massive galaxy and down to the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole. Gas clumps and filaments fall from the inner edge of the central cavity occasionally feeding the black hole. Credit: Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53.
    Distribution of gas across scales, with the gas density increasing from purple to yellow. The top left panel shows a large region containing tens of galaxies (6 million light-years across). Subsequent panels zoom in progressively into the nuclear region of the most massive galaxy and down to the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole. Gas clumps and filaments fall from the inner edge of the central cavity occasionally feeding the black hole.
    (Credit: Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53.)

    Cracking a mystery of massive black holes and quasars with supercomputer simulations. At the center of galaxies, like our own Milky Way, lie massive black holes surrounded by spinning gas...

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