Supermassive black hole illustration (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Supermassive black hole illustration

Caption

This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy 1ES 1927+654 before its recent flare-up.

Credit

NASA/Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet

Usage Restrictions

No restrictions.

License

Public Domain

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