Radio telescope detects supermassive black hole feeding on dense gas

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The Circinus Galaxy is situated approximately 13 million light-years away from Earth within the Circinus constellation. “The findings present, for the first time, spatially resolved and robust evidence of mass accretion and feedback of an active galactic nucleus on sub-parsec scales,” mentioned theThe process by which a supermassive black hole progressively collects matter from its surroundings is referred to as mass accretion from an AGN. This stuff is often composed of gas, dust, and other star material that gets dragged into the black hole's gravitational influence.

“Previous studies have shown that gas can be supplied from the interstellar medium of an entire galaxy to its central region – the area within ~100 parsecs of the core. However, little is known about how gas is delivered to the innermost area surrounding the black hole due to the extreme compactness of the region,” noted the official release.

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