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Images of a toroidal accretion flow (ion torus) around a supermassive Kerr black hole located at the galactic centre as seen by an observer on Earth. Confined by the innermost ultra-fine ring of light is the so called black hole silhouette. Top left: BH spin <math>a_*=0.5<\math>, inc=80°, size=0.3; Top right: BH spin <math>a_*=0.9<\math>, inc=80°, size=0.3; Bottom left: BH spin <math>a_*=0.5<\math>, inc=80°, size=0.7; Bottom right: BH spin <math>a_*=0.5<\math>, inc=40°, size=0.3. Figure credit: Straub et al. (2012).
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| current | 17:59, 13 January 2013 | | 500 × 475 (52 KB) | Odele Straub (Talk | contribs) | smaller resolution |
| 17:49, 13 January 2013 |  | 2,441 × 2,317 (461 KB) | Odele Straub (Talk | contribs) | Images of a toroidal accretion flow (ion torus) around a supermassive Kerr black hole located at the galactic centre as seen by an observer on Earth. Confined by the innermost ultra-fine ring of light is the so called black hole silhouette. Top left: BH s |
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