Abstract
Although the bulk of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth has occurred at redshifts higher than 2, the feeding processes cannot be resolved at the corresponding distances. It is in the near Universe that these processes - which take place within the inner few hundred parsecs of active galaxies - can be probed down to ∼10 pc spatial resolution. We discuss integral field spectroscopic observations of the inner kiloparsec of nearby active galaxies which reveal the presence of gas reservoirs and inflows along nuclear spirals and filaments.
