Rhodes College: NASA's Webb to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions
August 20, 2020
August 20, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 20 -- Rhodes College issued the following news:
Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact regions of space from which nothing -- not even light -- can escape. As such a black hole, weighing in at millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun, devours material, it is surrounded by a swirling disk of gas. When gas from this disk falls towards the black hole, it releases a tremend . . .
Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact regions of space from which nothing -- not even light -- can escape. As such a black hole, weighing in at millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun, devours material, it is surrounded by a swirling disk of gas. When gas from this disk falls towards the black hole, it releases a tremend . . .