[HN Gopher] Tiny galaxies reveal secrets of supermassive black h...
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Tiny galaxies reveal secrets of supermassive black holes
Author : theafh
Score : 70 points
Date : 2022-03-14 14:53 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
| swamp40 wrote:
| This is pretty neat.
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| _The radiation was a tell-tale sign of iron atoms that had been
| so battered that they lost nine electrons -- the so-called "Fe X"
| (or "Iron 10") line. The researchers checked another candidate
| and found the same trait. While neither object had the
| traditional appearance of a feeding black hole, it was hard to
| imagine what else could be doing such violence to iron atoms._
| gzer0 wrote:
| This work highlights the power of coronal line emission to find
| black holes (BH) in dwarf galaxies missed by other selection
| techniques and to probe the BH population in bluer, lower-mass
| dwarf galaxies.
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| This is one of the papers that the article could be based off of
| [1].
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| [1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1ffa
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