Departamento de Física

Usach Researcher in Nature Astronomy: Massive Black Holes Create Their Own Fuel

A significant discovery by Valeria Olivares, a physicist at the University of Santiago, and an international team of astronomers, published in Nature Astronomy, reveals a correlation between the surface brightness of hot and warm gas in the central filaments of galaxy clusters. 

This finding provides crucial insight into the origin of these gaseous filaments, the primary fuel source for supermassive black holes and star formation.