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    Ram-pressure feeding of supermassive black holes

    The majority of ‘jellyfish’ galaxies, characterized by long ‘tentacles’ of gas, also have active nuclei, indicating that gas is being fed to the central supermassive black hole by ram pressure.

    Bianca M. Poggianti, Yara L. Jaffé, Alessia Moretti, Marco Gullieuszik in Nature (2017)