Sentences with phrase «orbit around a supermassive black hole»
«Something is causing gas within the quasar to move around at very high speed, and the only phenomenon we know that achieves such speeds is orbit around a supermassive black hole,» Simcoe says.
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«Something is causing gas within the quasar to move around at very high speed, and the only phenomenon we know that achieves such speeds is orbit around a supermassive black hole,» Simcoe said.
Not exact matches
Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.
VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402 +379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified as a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around each other.