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ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News


NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'doughnut' theory

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:23 PM PDT

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects. The unified theory of active, supermassive black holes, first developed in the late 1970s, was created to explain why black holes, though similar in nature, can look completely different. Some appear to be shrouded in dust, while others are exposed and easy to see.

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