Figure 24-14: R I V U X G
Providing Fresh “Fuel” for a Supermassive Black Hole A small satellite galaxy has fallen into the central regions of the radio galaxy Cygnus A (see Figure 24-1). Its material may eventually accrete onto the supermassive black hole at Cygnus A’s very center. This false-color extreme close-up was made using adaptive optics, described in Section 6-3.
Providing Fresh “Fuel” for a Supermassive Black Hole A small satellite galaxy has fallen into the central regions of the radio galaxy Cygnus A (see Figure 24-1). Its material may eventually accrete onto the supermassive black hole at Cygnus A’s very center. This false-color extreme close-up was made using adaptive optics, described in Section 6-3.
(Courtesy G. Canalizo, C. Max, D. Whysong, R. Antonucci, and S. E. Dahm)