Edge Flares (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edge Flares

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In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole.  

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Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University

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