Absorbing Cloud of Material Is Located High above the Supermassive Black Hole (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Absorbing Cloud of Material Is Located High above the Supermassive Black Hole

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In this illustration, the position of a dark, absorbing cloud of material is located high above the supermassive black hole and accretion disk in the center of the active galaxy NGC 5548. Numerous other filaments twist around the black hole as they are swept away by a torrent of radiation "winds."

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NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

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