Artist's Impression of the Dusty Gaseous Torus Around an Active Supermassive Black Hole (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Artist's Impression of the Dusty Gaseous Torus Around an Active Supermassive Black Hole

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ALMA revealed the rotation of the torus very clearly for the first time.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

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