Sentences with phrase «host supermassive black holes at their centers»
In their paper, published this week in Nature, the team said that while it is now well established that most, if not all, galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their center, the process for how galaxies accrete — or acquire — matter is not well understood.
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These ultra-compact dwarfs are around 0.1 percent the size of the Milky Way, yet they host supermassive black holes that are bigger than the black hole at the center of our own galaxy,» marvels Ahn.
The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is about ten times larger than the one in the Milky Way, and is also consuming material at a faster rate, potentially increasing its impact on the evolution of its host galaxy.
The team focused on seven jellyfish galaxies, and amazingly, six out of the seven jellyfish galaxies were found to host an active supermassive black hole at the center, feeding on the surrounding gas.