A Disk of Starforming Gas

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A Disk of Starforming Gas

Artist’s conception of the disk of star-forming gas around the center of the galaxy hosting the quasar PSS J2322+1944. The disk is about 13,000 light-years in diameter. The luminous quasar, powered by the infall of matter into a supermassive black hole, is at the center.

Credit: Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney, NRAO/AUI/NSF

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