'We see clear evidence of a rotating wind that helps regulate the growth of the galaxy's central black hole,' astronomer Mark Gorski said.
Scientists may have figured out how supermassive black holes manage to grow quite so large.A powerful magnetic wind that swirls around these gargantuan cosmic phenomena like water around a plughole may enable them to grow to their immense sizes, according to a new paper in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.This process may be similar to that involved in the birth of stars, researchers suggested.
By using ALMA, we were able to study light from behind thick layers of dust and gas,' study co-author Susanne Aalto, a professor of radio astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, said in a statement.This newly found wind may push material into the black hole, causing it to slowly grow.'We can see how the winds form a spiraling structure, billowing out from the galaxy's center.
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