Speaker
Volker Gaibler
(ITA, University of Heidelberg)
Description
It is well known that the interstellar medium of galaxies has a highly complex structure. Yet, hydrodynamical simulations of active galactic nuclei have only recently started to actually take into account the strongly inhomogeneous nature of the ISM that they are interacting with.
I will present recent simulation results on how nuclear black hole activity can enhance or trigger considerable star formation - with applications reaching from the Milky Way Galaxy to massive galaxies in the high-redshift Universe.
Author
Volker Gaibler
(ITA, University of Heidelberg)