
These two data plots from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show a primitive supermassive black hole top compared to a typical one; usually, dust tori are missing and only gas disks are observed in primitive black holes.
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NASA ID
PIA12965
Date Created
March 17, 2010
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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