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Artist's impression of a super-massive black hole


Date: 16 September 2008
Satellite: XMM-Newton
Depicts: Artist's impression of a super-massive black hole
Copyright: Credits: Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University (Adapted by M. Gierlinski)

Artist's impression of material falling into a supermassive black hole, forming an accretion disc and jets, together with the averaged shape of the periodic X-ray signal of REJ1034+396 as detected with XMM-Newton.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
6-Mar-2026 17:39 UT

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