Massive Black Holes Got Gas
In a paper submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, available online now here, astronomers from UC Berkeley discuss their computer simulations of the gas in the vicinity of massive black holes in the core of galaxies. Of note are the conclusions that black hole accretion rates and star formation rates are correlated, thus linking star formation rates to the active galactic nuclei (AGN) of galaxies. And if you are not impressed by those conclusions, perhaps you’ll be impressed by the movies developed by the computer simulations, which are available online here.