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 |