Black Hole Jets Reach Far Beyond Galaxies' Visible Edges, Potentially Deciding Their Fate
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Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate
Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars. These stars form from cold, dense gas. Every large galaxy, including the Milky Way, is wrapped in a huge envelope of gas called the circumgalactic medium, or CGM. This reservoir of raw material stretches 10–20 times the size of the visible portion of the galaxy.
Supermassive black holes can shape their environment over huge distances. An analysis of 324 lines of view now shows a clear surplus of H-alpha radiation along the axes of radio jets, while averaged across all directions no significant signal remains. This indicates that jets are deliberately changing the cool circumgalactic gas along their orbit. Tempe (U.S.A.). Galaxies do not end [...] The post Black-hole jets alter gas far outside galaxies f…
Astronomers uncover black hole jets reaching far beyond their galaxies and deciding their fate
A team of scientists has discovered observational evidence of how supermassive black holes lying at the very centers of galaxies impact the entire galaxy within and beyond its visible boundary, and dictate their ultimate fate.
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