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Black holes at the center of many galaxies might look more like pancakes than doughnuts, as the black holes at their center burn their inner edges.

That is how Romain Petrov described the findings of his colleagues in a new paper. A long-held theory about active galactic nuclei, the bright centers of some galaxies believed to be driven by supermassive black holes, has been confirmed and could have implications for how we understand our own existence.

The co-evolution between the black hole and the host galaxy has an impact on the evolution of the galaxy.

The Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Multi-AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment were used by Dr. Petrov and his colleagues to make new observations of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77.

The basis of the Unified Model of Active Galactic Nuclei is that the differences in observed behavior among different nuclei are a function of our angle of view when observing them. This torus forms as matter spirals inward to feed the central black hole, the material whirls and releases the tremendous amount of energy that makes active galactic nuclei.

A white gass cloud is blown out from the center of active galaxy Messier 77, presumably by the supermassive black hole that lurks in its core. (Nasa)
A white gass cloud is blown out from the center of active galaxy Messier 77, presumably by the supermassive black hole that lurks in its core. (Nasa)

The torus hiding the central black hole in Messier 77 is the cornerstone of the unified model of Active Galactic Nuclei, which explains a large class of mysterious phenomena with a single mechanism.

A team using the Very Large Telescope published results that challenged the accepted geometry of Messier 77 and thus the unified model.

The GRAVITY team concluded they could see the hot inner edge of thedoughnut, the torus that should be hiding the black hole at the center of Messier.

The central structure of the doughnut cannot be hidden if you see the inner edge.

GRAVITY is sensitive to the K-band, which is between 2 and 2.4 microns. The L, M, and N bands are more sensitive to temperature differences than the other bands. The predictions of the GRAVITY collaboration were disproved by the new observations conducted by Dr. Petrov and his colleagues.

The dust torus is hiding the central structure inMessier 77, but it looks more like a pancake with a central hole.

The unified model can now be applied to the study of other active galactic nuclei, as well as to the study of star formation, planet formation, and the development of life.

What does the dust at the center of the Active Galactic Nuclei look like?

The smoke above the central hole of the pancake is the dusty wind process. I am currently in the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

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