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English: In this top-down illustration of a black hole and its surrounding disk, gas spiraling toward the black hole piles up just outside it, creating a traffic jam. The traffic jam is closer in for smaller black holes, so X-rays are emitted on a shorter timescale
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Source http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/smallest_blackhole.html
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