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An artist's impression of a disc shaped cloud of dust around a black hole. Two jets coming from either side of the disc appear bright blue and extend towards the outside of the image.
An artist’s impression of a dusty region around a black hole. The most dust-enshrouded black holes can completely stop X-rays and visible light escaping, but the same dust can be heated by a growing black hole and will glow brightly at infrared wavelengths.
ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani
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