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Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe

The Joy of x

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A Quasar Could Power This Outflow

So the flowing gas in this, in this analogy, winde analogys a flowing gas thad be analogous to the waves in the earth. And so i realized that if a quasar could power this outflow, then a a couple of interesting observational tests could test such a picture. I was thinking about, you know, could we see the gas wout, the gas itself glow with that shell glow, before it broke up and formed stars? Then i had this kind of real aha moment, when i was just doing the calculation, and i realized that, in fact, this gas, if it hung around, and if it could hang around without forming stars quickly, then it

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