First Observation of Torus Surrounding the Supermassive Black Hole at the Core of Powerful Radio Galaxy from black hole Watch Video
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Description: Astronomers used the NSF's Karl Jansky Very Large Array to observe the dusty, doughnut-shaped torus surrounding the black hole and accretion disk at the center of a powerful radio galaxy. Animation depicts how the torus can obscure different features when viewed from different angles. This explains how the same type of
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