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    The Material that Obscures Supermassive Black Holes

    September 27, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This active black hole -shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset- is one of the most obscured known, as it is surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust that can be characterized using infrared and X-ray observations. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This active black hole -shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset- is one of the most obscured known, as it is surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust that can be characterized using infrared and X-ray observations. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    New research examines the material that obscures active galactic nuclei obtained from infrared and X-ray observations. Black holes appear to play a fundamental role in how galaxies evolve throughout their life during a phase in which they are active and consume material from the galaxy itself...

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