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."Supermassive black holes can make the centers of galaxies shine very brightly when they capture gas, and it's thought this process can be a major influence on the way that galaxies look today.
Raimundo's team, which included researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Copenhagen, tackled this mystery by using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia to study the orbits of gas andThis allowed them to detect gas rotating in the opposite direction as the stars in some of the galaxies. This"misaligned" gas indicates an interaction, such as a collision and merger, between those galaxies and other galaxies in the past.
This gas then travels vast distances before encountering the massive gravitational influence of the supermassive black hole. Dragged toward the cosmic titan, the gas then ends its journey by being swallowed by the black hole and acting as a fuel source for AGN activity, the researchers explained.
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