Supermassive Black Hole (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Supermassive Black Hole

Caption

This is an artist's impression of a supermassive black hole, with matter falling into it rotating as a disk heating up in its center, and two jets of relativistic particles emitted along the axis. Some gas and stars from the surrounding galaxy are visible in the background.

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Casey Reed

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