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Astronomers Discover Gas Clouds Circling Black Holes in Opposite Directions

Daily Mail
Unstable gas clouds circling black holes in opposite directions may help them grow more rapidly because they get sucked in faster, a new study suggests. While such counter-rotational flows are not an uncommon phenomena in space, study co-author and astrophysicist Jack Gallimore of the Bucknell said in this story that it is rare to see it on a much smaller scale, tens of light-years instead of thousands from the central black hole.

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