Black Holes in the Center of Galaxies Slide 18 of 22

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This is the slide I started with. It is a spectacular picture taken by the Hubble space telescope of the matter (stars) swirling around a smaller black hole (only 500 million suns) in a distant galaxy. Note that it looks very much like the artist's rendition I showed you earlier. The two jets of matter that you see on the left are basically thrown out by the intense swirling motion near the center.

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