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Cold, clumpy accretion onto an active supermassive black hole
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redif-article
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Source
Nature, Nature. 534(7606):218-221
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English
Abstract
The so-called accretion flow that powers the growth of supermassive black holes in galaxy centres is assumed to be dominated by a smooth, steady flow of very hot plasma, but now observations instead reveal a clumpy accretion of very cold molecular clouds onto a supermassive black hole in the nucleus of a nearby giant elliptical galaxy.