Hubble spots “impossible” structure around a malnourished black hole

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered structures around a black hole that were thought to be impossible. A small, “malnourished” black hole was found to have a flat disk of material circling it – a feature thought unique to supermassive black holes. This disc is also so close to the black hole that it’s distorting and stretching the light itself.

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Accretion discs are found around large black holes so its not surprising.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Hubble spots “impossible” structure around a malnourished black hole

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered structures around a black hole that were thought to be impossible. A small, “malnourished” black hole was found to have a flat disk of material circling it – a feature thought unique to supermassive black holes. This disc is also so close to the black hole that it’s distorting and stretching the light itself.

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Accretion discs are found around large black holes so its not surprising.

I can think of two accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes. One is Cygnus X-1. But both have nearby stars. This one doesn’t.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Hubble spots “impossible” structure around a malnourished black hole

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered structures around a black hole that were thought to be impossible. A small, “malnourished” black hole was found to have a flat disk of material circling it – a feature thought unique to supermassive black holes. This disc is also so close to the black hole that it’s distorting and stretching the light itself.

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Accretion discs are found around large black holes so its not surprising.

I can think of two accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes. One is Cygnus X-1. But both have nearby stars. This one doesn’t.

Maybe it was a brown dwarf, gas planet ?

Maybe the accretion disc was a brown dwarf, gas planet ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Hubble spots “impossible” structure around a malnourished black hole

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered structures around a black hole that were thought to be impossible. A small, “malnourished” black hole was found to have a flat disk of material circling it – a feature thought unique to supermassive black holes. This disc is also so close to the black hole that it’s distorting and stretching the light itself.

more…

Accretion discs are found around large black holes so its not surprising.

I can think of two accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes. One is Cygnus X-1. But both have nearby stars. This one doesn’t.

Maybe it was a brown dwarf, gas planet ?

Yes, maybe. This is possible.