Artist's Impression of the Gaseous Disk around the Supermassive Black Hole (IMAGE)

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Artist's Impression of the Gaseous Disk around the Supermassive Black Hole

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Hot spots circling around the black hole could produce the quasi-periodic millimeter emission detected with ALMA.

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Keio University

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