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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Caption

An artist’s impression of a quasar wind (in light blue) being launched off of the accretion disk (red-orange) around a supermassive black hole.

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NASA/CXC/M. Weiss, Catherine Grier and the SDSS collaboration

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