Motion of Gas Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of M77 (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Motion of Gas Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of M77

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The gas moving toward us is shown in blue and that moving away from us is in red. The gas's rotation is centered around the black hole.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Imanishi et al.

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