Gigantic dusty donut around a black hole imaged for the first time

What do radio galaxies, quasars, blazars, Seyfert galaxies and active galactic nuclei all have in common? Everything, it turns out: These are all different names for the same celestial objects viewed from different angles. Now, for the first time astronomers have directly imaged the last piece of the puzzle that ties them all together – a dusty donut of material that surrounds a supermassive black hole.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• Black hole
• Cygnus
• Galaxy
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• Radio
• Supermassive black hole
• Very Large Array

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