Discovering food that increases black holes

An international team of researchers using the large telescope in Chile captured images of the black hole feeding around the heart of early galaxies.

The team says that these supplies allowed space holes to grow rapidly at a time when the universe was very young.

They believe their findings add an essential part to the puzzle about how the earliest space structures are formed, such as galactic groupings and gaps. The presence of these monsters in the early universe is a mystery, said Emmanuel Paolo Farina of the Max Planck Institute.

Super-mass black holes are several billion times larger than the mass of our sun, and thus far it was thought there was not enough material around them to stimulate growth.

“They could have been formed by the fall of the first stars and should have grown very quickly”, Farina says.

The food of the black hole with cold gas and dust was not found by astronomers in large quantities to explain this rapid growth.

We are now able to demonstrate, for the first time, that the original galaxies have enough food to keep the black holes on the rise and the powerful formation of the stars”, Farina adds.

Astronomers used the Southern European Observatory telescope, including a board instrument known as Muse, to collect data on black holes.

They observed 31 extremely bright nucleuses in active galaxies.

Astronomers have found that 12 of these cores were surrounded by large reservoirs made up of dense hydrogen gas.

The next generation of extremely large telescope, which will be located in earth's orbit in 2025, will allow scientists to discover more details about super-massive galaxies and black holes.

With the power of ELT, we will be able to dig even deeper into the early universe to find more such gas mist”, Farina says.