Using the large and radio telescope ALMA in Chile, astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark have discovered a swarm of galaxies orbiting a very bright galaxy.
The observation provides important clues to how exceptionally bright galaxies grow and evolve into active quasars, “a quasar or quasar, the hot gaseous region immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole that reaches a temperature of hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius and emits light” and radiates light through most of the visible universe.
Astronomers have spotted W0410-0913, one of the brightest, most massive and richest galaxies in the world.
The dust is heated by energy from starlight and the central black hole, causing it to glow and emitting the galaxy through infrared light. This has led to this type of galaxy being called “hot dust-shielded galaxies”.
As part of their evolution, most galaxies seem to build a supermassive black hole at their center, swallowing gas and nearby stars, and releasing excess energy in powerful jets, a phenomenon known as quasars.