August 2005 - Supermassive black-hole (artist's impression)
(Artist's impression) This illustration shows the dust torus around a super-massive black hole. Black holes lurk at the centres of active galaxies in environments not unlike those found in violent tornadoes on Earth.
Credit:ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani (ESO/ESA)
About the Calendar
| Id: | cal200508 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Month: | 8 |
