Stress drives gas into a black hole

Kartik Sheth () and Peter J. Teuben ()
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Kartik Sheth: University of Maryland
Peter J. Teuben: University of Maryland

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6717, 298-299

Abstract: New measurements of polarized radio emission from a barred spiral galaxy have allowed researchers to determine the galactic magnetic field, and to link it to interstellar gas flow in the bar region. Their results suggest that magnetic stress may be an efficient way of fuelling the supermassive black hole thought to exist in the active galactic nucleus of many galaxies.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/16802

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