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Black Hole with Wobbling Disk Artist Concept
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About this work
This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc precesses. "Precession" means that the orbit of material surrounding the black hole changes orientation around the central object. In these three views, the precessing inner disc shines high-energy radiation that strikes the matter in the surrounding accretion disc.
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Credit lineBlack Hole with Wobbling Disk Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2016-07-12. Public domain. ID: PIA20697.
