We may gain a clearer understanding of why accretion disks around large black holes are so bright
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Thousands of relatively small black holes may be orbiting a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of a galaxy. This idea not only helps explain how small black holes become large, but also provides new understanding of why supermassive black holes appear so bright.
Because the centers of galaxies are so dense, material, including relatively small black holes and stellar-mass black holes, tends to accumulate there. Several…
Source: www.newscientist.com
