Accretion Disk (IMAGE)

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Accretion Disk

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Accretion disk (in purple, out of scale). The process occurs in active-core nuclei. A molecular gas cloud that accumulates in the central region is blown away by radiation from the black hole's accretion disk, forming a huge expanding hot bubble, whose radius can reach 300 light years.

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Daniel May

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