Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Discussing a new paper about seeing the back side of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy I Zwicky 1.
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The Nature paper...
Light bending and X-ray echoes from behind a supermassive black hole
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03667-0
Or: arxiv.org/abs/2107.13555

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