The Secret of the Last Mile of the Black Hole Feeding (IMAGE)
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Like a starved dragon, the supermassive black hole in the center of quasar gobbles materials with endless appetite. These materials glares shiningly when gathering into an accretion disk before finally sliding down into the black hole. Outside the accretion disk, materials are pumped from all directions to the center to feed the black hole. These materials are described as inflows.
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Image by CUI Jie, Universit of Science and Technoloy of China
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