INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Supermassive Black Hole At This Dwarf Galaxy’s Center Suffers From ‘Indigestion’

  • Hayden Rampadarath

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    Hayden Rampadarath from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom presented a paper on the subject at the ongoing National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2017 in Hull, U.K. According to the researchers, matter streams onto the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 5195 when the smaller galaxy falls into the outer arms of the Whirlpool, something that happens once every couple of hundred million years in the process of their merger.

    Period5 Jul 2017

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    • TitleSupermassive Black Hole At This Dwarf Galaxy’s Center Suffers From ‘Indigestion’
      Media name/outletInternational Business Times
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
      Date5/07/17
      DescriptionHayden Rampadarath from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom presented a paper on the subject at the ongoing National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2017 in Hull, U.K. According to the researchers, matter streams onto the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 5195 when the smaller galaxy falls into the outer arms of the Whirlpool, something that happens once every couple of hundred million years in the process of their merger.
      URLwww.ibtimes.com/supermassive-black-hole-dwarf-galaxys-center-suffers-indigestion-2561389
      PersonsHayden Rampadarath
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    Keywords

    • astronomy
    • black holes
    • galaxies