Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the HST site: "A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc — a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole. Their study makes use of a novel technique that uses gravitational lensing to give an immense boost to the power of the telescope. The incredible precision of the method has allowed astronomers to directly measure the disc's size and plot the temperature across different parts of the disc."

Comments

It's just goatse

[Lunix Nutcase]

Don't get too excited it was just accidentally turned in the direction of goatse.

Hubble seems like a phenomenal waste

[GodfatherofSoul]

For about $19.95/mo*, I can see lots of big discs getting sucked into black holes.

* Torrenters get it free