Colliding galaxies light up dormant black holes

02/13/2005 08:00AM

Colliding galaxies light up dormant black holes

In the early universe, many galaxies exhibit extremely bright sources at their nuclei, so-called quasars. It is thought that the luminosity of the quasars is produced by super massive black holes in the centers of galaxies. The masses of these black holes are tightly correlated with the velocity dispersion of the stars in the central bulge of their host galaxies, which suggests a common formation mechanism...


Comments:

  • bobguz [Robert Guzauskas]
  • 02/18/2005 06:38PM
A good story about a great simulation ship wrecked on the notion of the gravitational black hole.<br><br>Galaxies are heat engines that behave like tropical storms. Why inject un-needed assumptions?<br>