heic0409a (IMAGE)
Caption
An artist’s impression of a dusty region around a black hole. The most dust-enshrouded black holes can completely stop X-rays and visible light escaping, but the same dust can be heated by a growing black hole and will glow brightly at infrared wavelengths.
Credit
ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani
Usage Restrictions
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License
CC BY