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How to Spot a Primitive Black Hole
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These two data plots from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show a primitive supermassive black hole top compared to a typical one; usually, dust tori are missing and only gas disks are observed in primitive black holes.
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Credit lineHow to Spot a Primitive Black Hole. NASA/JPL, 2010-03-17. Public domain. ID: PIA12965.
