Zooming into simulated galaxy (VIDEO)

Northwestern University

Caption

Animation illustrating the large range of spatial and temporal scales captured by the new simulations, with more than a thousand times better resolution than previously possible. Zooming in from the intergalactic medium on scales beyond one million light-years down to the inner ten light-year region of a massive galaxy, the predicted influx of gas into the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive black hole is high enough to power a luminous quasar at the epoch of peak activity.

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Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53

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Please credit Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, 53

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