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Picture of the Day: Gas Swirling Around a Black Hole
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[QUOTE="davenn, post: 6082101, member: 283516"] not so much an artists rendering but more probably a computer simulation based on actual observations [URL]https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1835a/[/URL]ESO's exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole. [B]This visualisation uses data from simulations of orbital motions of gas[/B] swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around the black hole. [B]Credit:[/B] ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. CalçadaDave [/QUOTE]
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