Breakthrough Discovery: Astronomers Accidentally Spot Edge of Supermassive Black Hole's Accretion Disk

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Breakthrough Discovery: Astronomers Accidentally Spot Edge of Supermassive Black Hole's Accretion Disk
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Astronomers have found the clearest evidence of an accretion disk surrounding a black hole at the center of galaxy III Zw 002, using data from two rare near-infrared emission lines.

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