Cold, clumpy accretion onto an active supermassive black hole

Supermassive black holes in galaxy centres can grow by the accretion of gas, liberating energy that might regulate star formation on galaxy-wide scales. The nature of the gaseous fuel reservoirs that power black hole growth is nevertheless largely unconstrained by observations, and is instead routin...

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Main Authors: Tremblay, Grant R. (Author), Oonk, J. B. Raymond (Author), Combes, Françoise (Author), Salomé, Philippe (Author), Christopher, Philippe (Author), O'Dea, P. (Author), Baum, Stefi A. (Author), Voit, G. Mark (Author), Donahue, Megan (Author), McNamara, Brian R. (Author), Davis, Timothy A. (Author), McDonald, Michael A. (Contributor), Edge, Alastair C. (Author), Clarke, Tracy E. (Author), Galván-Madrid, Roberto (Author), Bremer, Malcolm N. (Author), Edwards, Louise O. V. (Author), Fabian, Andrew C. (Author), Hamer, Stephen (Author), Li, Yuan (Author), Maury, Anaëlle (Author), Russell, Helen R. (Author), Quillen, Alice C. (Author), Urry, C. Megan (Author), Sanders, Jeremy S. (Author), Wise, Michael W. (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2017-04-21T14:58:21Z.
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