Accretion disks: How big are they really?

Accretion disks: How big are they really?

Space Daily

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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2023

Using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, astronomers have detected for the first time evidence of the presence of an accretion disk within the active galactic nucleus of galaxy III Zw 002. Using two rare and peculiar near-infrared emission lines, these observations place firm limits on the size of the galaxy's accretion disk a

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