Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish
A new way to feed black holes was just found with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile
Jellyfish galaxies form when galaxies plough at high speed into million-degree gas in galaxy clusters.
This creates long tentacles of glowing gas and newborn stars.
But it also makes more gas end up in the centres of the galaxies...
This feeds the black hole and makes its surroundings shine very brightly
Jellyfish galaxies are teaching us a new way to turn on the black holes in massive galaxies and make them shine!
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