"Did you hoard all those black holes by yourself?" "No, my sister hoard half of them."
This artist's impression shows the thick dust torus that astronomers believe surrounds many supermassive black holes and their accretion discs. When the torus is seen edge-on as in this case, much of the light and radiation emitted by the accretion disc is blocked, creating a "hidden" black hole. [ESA]
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SunkenCiv
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
gosh, is there anything in the universe that doesn’t look like a giant doughnut?
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11/06/2007 8:34:52 AM PST by
absolootezer0
(Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wouldn’t want to fly to close to one of these.
To: SunkenCiv
“Hoard of supermassive black holes found in Clinton Campaign Finance Records”
Hillary: “I had no idea mistakes were made because of the VRWC”
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