Science, Maths & Technology
Introduction to active galaxies
...physical processes that lie behind these different manifestations of active galaxies...Introduction to active galaxies: 3.2 Seyfert galaxies - In 1943 the American astronomer Carl Seyfert (1911-1960) drew attention to a handful of spiral galaxies that had unusually bright point-like nuclei. Figure 12 shows NGC 4051, one of the first Seyfert galaxies to be identified....