![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917102651im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Radio Telecopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism
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June 23, 2008
![artist's conception of interacting galaxies](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917102651im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/interact_galaxies_l.jpg) | Radio-telescope images have revealed previously unseen galactic cannibalism--a triggering event that leads to feeding frenzies by gigantic black holes at the cores of galaxies. Astronomers have long suspected that the extra-bright cores of spiral galaxies, called Seyfert galaxies, are powered by supermassive black holes consuming material; however, they could not see how the material begins its journey tward toward the black hole. Full story |
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