What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key. - Quanta Magazine

Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together.

To Martin Rees, the United Kingdoms Astronomer Royal, AGN feedback offered a natural way to connect the relatively tiny black hole to the galaxy at large. Two decades earlier, in the 1970s, Rees corr… [+5318 chars]

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