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Old 02-November-2007, 05:56 PM
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Post Podcasts: Rising Winds from Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers now believe there's a supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of every galaxy. When these monsters are actively feeding, an accretion disk of material builds up around them, like swirling water waiting to go down the drain. ...

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Default What atoms make up the gas in the disks?

Can we detect what atoms make up the gas detected in the acretion disk? Can we also detect the types of atoms leaving the disk to spread out in the galaxy?
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