![]() “The radiation excites gas all the way to the margins of the galaxy and stops only when it runs out of gas.” “For the first time, we are able to see the actual extent to which these quasars and their black holes can affect their galaxies, and we see that it is limited only by the amount of gas in the galaxy,” says Hainline, a Dartmouth postdoctoral research associate. (The paper is now available to the public through the Cornell University Library.) (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)ĭartmouth astrophysicists Ryan Hickox and Kevin Hainline and colleagues have a paper scheduled for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, detailing discoveries based upon observations of 10 quasars. They documented the immense power of quasar radiation, which reaches out for many thousands of light years to the limits of the quasar’s galaxy. Astrophysicists Ryan Hickox (left) and Kevin Hainline are able to see the extent to which quasars and black holes can affect their galaxies.
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