Observations of collisions between black hole jets and interstellar gases with the ALMA telescope
Research takes us a step closer to explaining the mechanism for giant gas effluences in galaxies

2020.03.27

A research team consisting of Kaiki Inoue, professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Kindai University, Satoki Matsushita, researcher at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Kouichiro Nakanishi, specially appointed associate professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and Takeo Minezaki, associate professor in the School of Science, University of Tokyo, carried out observations of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy with the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope in Chile. ALMA is currently the world's largest radio telescope. They successfully captured images with unprecedented high resolution of gaseous clouds being disrupted by ultra-high-speed streams of gas (jets) emitted from this colossal black hole located some 11 billion light years from Earth.

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