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Supermassive black hole seed seen by Chandra


Date: 24 May 2016
Copyright: NASA/CXC/Scuola Normale Superiore/Pacucci

This image shows one of two detected supermassive black hole seeds, OBJ29323, as it is seen by the NASA Chandra Space Telescope. The properties of the X-ray data match those predicted by models produced by the Italian research team.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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