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Whether They’re Stellar-Mass or Supermassive, Black Holes Behave Pretty Much the Same Way - Universe Today

Whether They’re Stellar-Mass or Supermassive, Black Holes Behave Pretty Much the Same Way - Universe Today

Whether They’re Stellar-Mass or Supermassive, Black Holes Behave Pretty Much the Same Way - Universe Today
Jun 08, 2021 39 secs

Astronomers recently caught a supermassive black hole gulp down a star.

Astronomers have been watching the feeding habits of small, stellar-mass black holes for decades.

When material nears the black hole, it compresses down to form a thin accretion disk.

“We’ve demonstrated that, if you’ve seen one black hole, you’ve seen them all, in a sense,” says Pasham.

“People have known this cycle to happen in stellar-mass black holes, which are only about 10 solar masses.

Besides being really cool, these observations are only the second time that astronomers have caught the formation of a corona around a black hole.

“A corona is a very mysterious entity, and in the case of supermassive black holes, people have studied established coronas but don’t know when or how they formed,” Pasham says.

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