20110104_M87_Black_Hole.jpg | Naked Scientists

Artist's concept of what a future telescope might see in looking at the black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87. Clumpy gas swirls around the black hole in an accretion disk, feeding the central beast. The black area at center is the black hole...

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Gemini Observatory/AURA illustration by Lynette Cook.

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