Friday, September 6, 2019

ALMA Reveals crazy kinematics around the black hole in NGC 1068

A new paper on NGC 1068, this time using the longest baselines currently available with ALMA. The molecular disk surrounding the central, supermassive black hole shows remarkably strange motions, and we are finding more evidence that free-free emission dominates the radio continuum. The preprint is available on arXiv.

The picture shows the radial velocities of molecular gas traced by HCN J=3-2 emission. This larger scale figure didn't make the paper, but it's fun to stare at.



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