Baby Black Hole (IMAGE)

University of Michigan

Baby Black Hole

Caption

This is an artist's impression of a growing supermassive black hole located in the early universe, showing a disk of gas rotating around the central object that generates copious amounts of radiation. This gas is destined to be consumed by the black hole.

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Credit: NASA/CXC/A.Hobart

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