If gas falls into the object, it can heat up and glow, turning the region just outside the black hole into a quasar —
a brilliant galactic nucleus that can outshine the entire Milky Way.
Not exact matches
She shared some of her first observations of how these accretion disks operate in
brilliant active
galactic nuclei, or AGNs.
He and his colleagues focused on the K - alpha emission line of iron, visible in the spectra of many active
galactic nuclei (AGN)-- the
brilliant centers of these galaxies.