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    A Disk of Gas Orbits a Supermassive Black Hole
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A Disk of Gas Orbits a Supermassive Black Hole

Question 56

Question 56

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A disk of gas orbits a supermassive black hole.What can astronomers use to determine the mass of the black hole from the properties of this disk?


A) Wien's law
B) the Doppler shift
C) Polarization
D) the Stefan-Boltzmann law

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