Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty (IMAGE)

Gemini Observatory

Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty

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This is an artist's visualization of the environment around M101 ULX-1, showing a stellar-mass black hole (foreground) with accretion disk. Gas from a Wolf-Rayet star (background) feeds the black hole's voracious appetite.

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Gemini Observatory/AURA artwork by Lynette Cook.

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