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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

NASA's NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light

.bdr {border:5px #ccc6c6 inset; } The regions around supermassive black holes shine brightly in X-rays. Some of this radiation comes from a surrounding disk, and most comes from the corona, pictured here in this artist's concept as the white light at the base of a jet. This is one of a few possible shapes predicted for coronas.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme...