Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole - 0 views
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Scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc -- a glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole
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Scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc -- a glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole.
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the team measured the disc's size and studied the colours (and hence the temperatures) of different parts of the disc
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