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Are spiral galaxies accretion discs for supermassive black holes?

Whenever I see an image of a spiral galaxy such as our own, it always seems to look like a vortex surrounding the black hole in the center of the galaxy.

Are galaxies like ours similar to accretion discs of black holes?

Posted Dec 29, 2011, 3:39 AM UTC

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