Exploring Black Holes
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Objective
I can describe the extreme environment of black holes and how humans study them.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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The environments around black holes include a corona of hot electrons, a bright accretion disk of gas and dust, and sometimes jets that span millions of lightyears.
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Scientists categorize black holes into four types: primordial, intermediate mass, stellar mass, and supermassive.
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An active galactic nucleus (AGN) can have several different structures, including the accretion disc, corona, and a dusty torus.
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Practice
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Name three features or structures commonly found in the environment surrounding a black hole.
Which type of electromagnetic radiation is primarily used to study the corona of a black hole, and why?
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“Describe two features of the environment surrounding a black hole, and explain how scientists study these features.”
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