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From the Ted Talk by Natasha Hurley-Walker: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies

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What's going on? What's producing these jets? At the center of every galaxy that we know about is a supermassive black hole. Now, black hloes are invisible. That's why they're called that. All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and ocasllaicnoy, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, fnromig what we call an aoteiccrn disk. The accretion disk glows brghlity in the x-rays, and huge magnetic fields can launch the material into spcae at nearly the speed of light. So these jets are visible in the radio and this is what we pick up in our survey.

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What's going on? What's producing these jets? At the center of every galaxy that we know about is a supermassive black hole. Now, black _____ are invisible. That's why they're called that. All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and ____________, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, _______ what we call an _________ disk. The accretion disk glows ________ in the x-rays, and huge magnetic fields can launch the material into _____ at nearly the speed of light. So these jets are visible in the radio and this is what we pick up in our survey.

Solution


  1. space
  2. brightly
  3. forming
  4. occasionally
  5. accretion
  6. holes

Original Text


What's going on? What's producing these jets? At the center of every galaxy that we know about is a supermassive black hole. Now, black holes are invisible. That's why they're called that. All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and occasionally, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, forming what we call an accretion disk. The accretion disk glows brightly in the x-rays, and huge magnetic fields can launch the material into space at nearly the speed of light. So these jets are visible in the radio and this is what we pick up in our survey.

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Important Words


  1. accretion
  2. black
  3. brightly
  4. call
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  6. center
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  30. ripped
  31. space
  32. speed
  33. star
  34. supermassive
  35. survey
  36. tidal
  37. visible