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What does our black hole look like?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Do You See Milky Way Black Hole Doughnuts?

Daniel: It's not a coincidence that these two things look similar. These are the two best target black holes for this telescope. We didn't know until we looked at them, what their angles were like? Are these things aligned with the galaxy? Are they out of alignment with te galaxy? And it's not even that easy to tell how the accretion disk is a line, because there's a lot of distortion around black hole. So you can look up pictures of this space doughnut. Ah, if you look up a, i guess, milky way black hole and discover you'll probably find pictures of it.

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