First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk
First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk
phys.org First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime structures may appear rather serene. But in fact the center of many galaxies is a turbulent environment containing an actively feeding supermassive black hole.
