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Hidden Supermassive Black Holes reveal their Secrets through Radio Signals

An artist’s impression of a red quasar. Red quasars are enshrouded by gas and dust, which may get blown away by outflows from the supermassive black hole, eventually revealing a typical blue quasar.
Credit: S. Munro & L. Klindt
Licence: Attribution (CC BY 4.0)
I think this is the strongest evidence so far that red quasars are a key element in how galaxies evolve
Dr Victoria Fawcett

Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced in extremely bright galaxies. The findings are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The team of international astronomers, led by Newcastle University and Durham University, UK, used new data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is conducting a five year survey of large scale structure in the universe that will include optical spectra for ~3 million quasars; extremely bright galaxies powered by supermassive black holes...

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