A Conceptual Rendition of Gas Being Driven into a Supermassive Black Hole Following a Supernova Expl (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

A Conceptual Rendition of Gas Being Driven into a Supermassive Black Hole Following a Supernova Expl

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Strong turbulence caused by supernova explosions inside a dense molecular gas disk in the central region of a galaxy disturbs the stable motion of gas. This causes the gas to flow further inward toward the supermassive black hole at the center.

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The University of Tokyo

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