03 – ALMA Top 10: Counter-rotating Gas Flows around a Black Hole
Astronomers using ALMA Observatory find counter-rotating disks of gas around a supermassive black hole. New observations provide an unprecedented close-up view of a swirling disk of cold interstellar gas rotating around a supermassive black hole. This disk lies at the center of NGC 3258, a massive elliptical galaxy about 100 million light-years from Earth.
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