Cardiff astronomers, along with international partners, have revealed a novel method to investigate how black holes feast.
An international team of astronomers has uncovered an entirely new method to investigate the behavior of active black holes.
They observed a sample of active black holes, located in the centers of 136 galaxies, and found a consistent pattern in their emission of microwave and X-ray light, regardless of their varying consumption rates of surrounding galactic materials, such as clouds of gas, dust, and DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad167
Made up of researchers from the Cardiff Hub for Astrophysics Research and Technology (CHART) and international partners from across Europe, Canada, and Japan, the team plans to further test their findings as part of a new “multi-Wavelength Observations of Nuclear Dark-object Emission Regions” (WONDER) project led by Dr Ruffa.