Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty
Artist’s visualization of the environment around M101 ULX-1, showing a stellar-mass black hole (foreground) with accretion disk. Gas from the Wolf-Rayet star (background) feeds the black hole’s voracious appetite.
Credit:Gemini Observatory/AURA artwork by Lynette Cook.
About the Image
| Id: | gemini1308a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | Nov. 26, 2013 |
| Related releases: | gemini1308 |
| Size: | 3300 x 2550 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
