ESO's VLTI Reveals Dust Torus Around the Black Hole in a Galactic Nucleus
Black holes swallow everything that comes near them and are fuelled by gas and dust from their surroundings. An international research team at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany has observed the inner region of galaxy NGC 3783, which contains a black hole surrounded by a so-called "Dust Torus." This torus apparently represents the reservoir of gaseous and dusty material that feeds the hot gas Accretion Disk and the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The observations were carried out with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile.
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