A study suggests that the gas clouds in the vicinity of rapidly accreting supermassive black holes are distributed in a planar distribution, impacting the estimation of the mass of the black hole based on the motion of these clouds.
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background image, ESA / Hubble & NASA and S. Smartt (Queen’s University Belfast) / Acknowledgement: Robert Gendler
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Shen, Y. Weighing supermassive black holes. Nat Astron 2, 30–31 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0346-3
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