Are there 6 galaxies surrounding a supermassive black hole?
Astronomers have found at least six galaxies around a supermassive black hole in a form of a 'spider's web' of gas extending to more than 300 times the Milky Way. Calling it a 'gigantic cosmic structure', a research paper published by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Bologna, the galaxies were already present when the universe was less than a billion years old.
Discovered by a team of astronomers at the National Institute of Astrophysics with observations made on ESO's Very large telescope (Vlt) and the Large binocular telescope (Lbt), it is the 'first' time that such a structure has been observed in the remote era of the cosmos. This discovery will further help scientists understand the formation of supermassive black holes along with the extraordinary speed with which these objects increase in mass.
The light from this immensely colossal web-like 'blach hole- dominated structure with an estimated mass of one billion times that of the Sun', has travelled to Earth from a time when the macrocosm was only 900 million years old. Roberto Gilli, additionally an astronomer at INAF, Bologna and co-author of the study published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, has expounded that their work is an 'paramount piece' to a still incomplete puzzle that describes the formation and evolving of extreme celestial objects.
As per the study, the incipiently discovered six galaxies can be expounded by saying that the abundances of gas they contain, provide the fuel that the central black hole requires in order to expeditiously become supermassive.
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