August 2005 - Supermassive black-hole (artist's impression)

(Artist's impression) This illustration shows the dust torus around a super-massive black hole. Black holes lurk at the centres of active galaxies in environments not unlike those found in violent tornadoes on Earth.
Credit:ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani (ESO/ESA)
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| Id: | cal200508 | 
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| Year: | 2005 | 
| Month: | 8 | 

