Growing Supermassive Black Holes

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nustar_nustar170509a May 9th, 2017

Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

This illustration compares growing supermassive black holes in two different kinds of galaxies. A growing supermassive black hole in a normal galaxy would have a donut-shaped structure of gas and dust around it (left). In a merging galaxy, a sphere of material obscures the black hole (right).

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