Event Horizon (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Event Horizon

Caption

This artist's impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. The elongated spot depicts an X-ray-bright region in the disk, which allows the spin of the black hole to be estimated.

Credit

NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

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