Speedy black hole holds galaxy’s history

Last Updated on 27 February 2013

The European Space Agency have just published this article of mine:

 

“A rapidly rotating supermassive black hole has been found in the heart of a spiral galaxy by ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR space observatories, opening a new window into how galaxies grow.

Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk in the centre of almost all large galaxies, and scientists believe that the evolution of a galaxy is inextricably linked with the evolution of its black hole. ...”

You can read the whole article here.


Written on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:00 by Nicola Clark

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