Astronomers Reveal Marvellous Eclipsing Absorber in Active Galaxy NGC 6814 (VIDEO)

University of Science and Technology of China

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A 3D animated diagram of the marvellous eclipsing absorber, composed of multi-phase and clumpy clouds. The large black spheres represent the clumpy Compton-thick clouds in the dense core of the absorber, the large grey spheres denote the Compton-thin clouds, and small black/grey dots are likely the fragments ablated or tidal stretched/disrupted from the large clouds. (Image by KANG et al.)

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KANG et al.

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