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APOD September 5

This incredibly dramatic photo provides evidence that, as pictured in the center, black holes or areas of highly concentrated mass with strong gravitational pulls, rotate in a formation similar to a whirlpool and are surrounded by hot swirling gasses indicated by red.  X-ray light is emitted as the gas swirls on the inner edge of the accretion disk, pulled inward by gravitational force, at a extremely high frequency caused by the rapid spinning of the black hole.  The most interesting aspect of this discovery is the fact that as these black holes spin they are pulling the actual fabric of space with them.  I wonder if the fact that black holes spin increases their threat to surrounding objects in space.