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Supermassive black hole. Artwork.

author: Nasa/ESA/Novapix

reference: a-blh01-00005

Image Size 300 DPI: 26 * 19 cm

This artist's impression shows the thick dust torus that astronomers believe surrounds many supermassive black holes and their accretion discs. When the torus is seen edge-on as in this case, much of the light emitted by the accretion disc is blocked, creating a "hidden" black hole.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - BLACK HOLE - COSMOLOGY - DISK - DUST - GALACTIC BLACK HOLE - GRAVITY - ILLUSTRATION - JET - SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE -