X-rays Produced by a Black Hole (IMAGE)

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X-rays Produced by a Black Hole

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This frame from the simulation shows the X-rays produced by a black hole (white) and its effects on nearby gas (blue). This scene occurs 400 million years after the universe formed. The black hole, born from a star's collapse 200 million years ago, has grown by less than one percent -- about the mass of our sun -- since.

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KIPAC/SLAC/M. Alvarez, T. Abel and J. Wise

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