Black Hole MAXI J1820+070 (Illustration) (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Black Hole MAXI J1820+070 (Illustration)

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In this illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070, a black hole pulls material off a neighboring star and into an accretion disk. Above the disk is a region of subatomic particles called the corona.

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Aurore Simonnet and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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