This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the active galaxy NGC 3783 in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). New observations using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have revealed not only the torus of hot dust around the black hole but also a wind of cool material in the polar regions. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
For the first time, astronomers mapped the outflows from one of the closest quasars — I Zwicky 1.
Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449544