Distant super-massive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eating
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- Publication of three linked papers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) by University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind
- SMBH are found in the nucleus of all but the smallest galaxies, including our local Milky Way Galaxy, typically being identified by a bright or 'active' nucleus (AGN)
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