This Is An Artist's Conception of the Accretion Disk around a Spinning Super-Massive Black Hole (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

This Is An Artist's Conception of the Accretion Disk around a Spinning Super-Massive Black Hole

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The rotation of the black hole may cause the high-speed jet which makes the object radio-loud.

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