ESA - ESA's high-energy observatories spot doughnut-shaped cloud with a black-hole filling
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Using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton observatories, an international team of astronomers has found more evidence that massive black holes are surrounded by a doughnut-shaped gas cloud, called a torus. Depending on our line of sight, the torus can block the view of the black hole in the centre. The team looked `edge on’ into this doughnut to see features never before revealed in such a clarity.
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2004年8月 星が好きな人のための新着情報
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black holes Archives - AAS Nova