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Acceretion disk

Acceretion disk

We can still observe black holes because of ther effect on matter. Things can orbit black holes just as they can orbit the sun or a planet.

  • Many black holes have discs of matter orbiting outside the event horizon.
  • This matter can become incredibly hot as close orbits can speed this matter up to half the speed of light, and tiny amounts of friction and colisions between particles heat them to a billion degrees, making the space around these black holes, ironcally, incredibly bright.

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