An international team of astronomers has discovered a completely unique way to understand the behavior of active great voids when they consume.
They found that a sample of active great voids at the center of 136 galaxies shines in microwave and X-ray light in the same way, regardless of their appetites for the surrounding stellar matter, such as gaseous clouds of dust and plasma.
These findings, which will be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, could provide new information about how galaxies evolve. The leaders of this research state that this discovery was unexpected, confounding our current understanding of how great voids consume.
When investigating the link between the cold gas around active great voids, they discovered that the microwave light could actually originate from streams of plasma in all kinds of active great voids.
