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BLACK HOLE UNBALANCES ENTIRE GALAXY WITH MASSIVE TANTRUM
BBC Science Focus
|February 2024
The XMM-Newton space observatory has spotted a black hole going 'full toddler'
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We all have bad days, committing to a monumental strop here, or a display of our anger there, but have you ever had a tantrum so bad that you threw an entire galaxy off balance?
Well, that’s what has happened thanks to one particularly badly behaved black hole observed by the XMM-Newton space observatory.
Zoom in on every large galaxy and you’ll find a supermassive black hole, drawing in gas from its surroundings with its immense gravity. As the gas spirals inwards, it is crushed into what is known as an accretion disc – a flat disk of gas that orbits a massive central body.
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