the-star-stuff: Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled Scientists were able to detect a ring of hot dust that marks the transition from a more distant mixture of gas and dust in a doughnut-shaped structure to a gaseous disk closer to the black hole. By University of California, Santa Barbara — Published: May 17, 2012 Imaged Above: Artist’s view of a dust torus surrounding the accretion disk and the central black hole in active galactic nuclei. Credit: NASA E/PO - Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet
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Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled

Scientists were able to detect a ring of hot dust that marks the transition from a more distant mixture of gas and dust in a doughnut-shaped structure to a gaseous disk closer to the black hole. By University of California, Santa Barbara — Published: May 17, 2012
Imaged Above: Artist’s view of a dust torus surrounding the accretion disk and the central black hole in active galactic nuclei. Credit: NASA E/PO - Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet