- An actively feeding black hole surrounds itself with a disk of hot gas and dust that flickers like a campfire. Astronomers have now found that monitoring changes in those flickers can reveal something that is notoriously hard to measure: the behemoth’s heft. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-holes-mass-measure-new-technique-accretion-disk 3 comments science
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