{"id":8544,"date":"2019-05-23T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riastronomia.es\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:12:09","slug":"v-meeting-of-agn-research-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riastronomia.es\/en\/v-meeting-of-agn-research-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"“V Meeting of AGN research in Spain”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 <\/i>Fecha de comienzo: 11\/07\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/i>Fecha de finalizaci\u00f3n: 12\/07\/2019<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/i> Lugar: <\/strong>Instituto de F\u00edsica de Cantabria (IFCA-CSIC\/UC<\/a>), Santander<\/p>\n

<\/i> Organizadora:\u00a0<\/strong>Silvia Mateos (IFCA-CSIC\/UC)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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(esta p\u00e1gina es una r\u00e9plica de https:\/\/indico.ifca.es\/event\/1110<\/a>\/)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The phenomenon of strong non-stellar activity in the centres of some galaxies has been known and studied since the 1940s. The violent and energetic processes happening in the innermost regions of those galaxies have their own intrinsic interest, added to that of the usefulness of this class of sources as remote (in space and time) and bright beacons to study the early Universe and the intervening material.<\/p>\n

This has been transcended by the discovery in the last 20 years of the ubiquitousness of supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, with masses strongly correlated to several basic galaxy properties. This, together with the similar cosmic evolution of star formation and energy release from accretion (the ultimate origin of the emission of those active galactic nuclei -AGN-), strongly suggest that the formation and evolution of galaxies and of their nuclear black holes (shining as AGN when they grow) are strongly coupled, either by mutual coupling and influence or due to both being driven by some other process (or processes), such as accretion from the cosmic web. AGN are thus not a rare cosmic occurrence, appealing only to a minority of astronomical botanists, but appear to be central to our understanding of galaxy formation and growth, one of the greatest mysteries in modern Astrophysics.<\/p>\n

This new drive to understand AGN has produced plenty of new and interesting results, but many questions remain to be answered, such as:<\/p>\n