
Exploring Black Holes
9th Grade · Science · 10 min
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Learning Objective
I can describe the extreme environment of black holes and how humans study them.
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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.
