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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 03:28:06 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Accidents aren’t always a stroke of bad luck. Scientists have measured the exact size of the disk of matter swirling around a supermassive black hole. Live Science has more on the serendipitous discovery, one that the team didn't set out to find: https://flip.it/8ijQ1k
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1. For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black hole
  
  Researchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes.

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