Artist’s impression of a black hole star (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Artist’s impression of a black hole star

Caption

Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). The cut-out reveals the central black hole with its surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is the surrounding envelope of turbulent gas. This configuration can explain what astronomers observe in the object they are calling “The Cliff.”

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MPIA/HdA/T. Müller/A. de Graaff

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