ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole’s spinning disk

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Pretty cool...

"Astronomers have used the ALMA telescope in northern Chile to image a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy."

"Astronomers have been talking for decades about supermassive black holes – with compact, gaseous disks around them – at the cores of galaxies, but, according to ALMA: ...this is the first time one has been confirmed so clearly."


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