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Supermassive Black Hole
This artist’s impression depicts a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin disc of rotating material consists of the leftovers of a Sun-like star which was ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. Shocks in the colliding debris as well as heat generated in accretion led to a burst of light, resembling a supernova explosion. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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Cold Intergalactic Rain
The cosmic weather report, as illustrated in this artist’s concept, calls for condensing clouds of cold molecular gas around the Abell 2597 Brightest Cluster Galaxy. The clouds condense out of the hot, ionised gas that suffuses the space between the galaxies in this cluster. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry/SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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The Quasar 3C 279
This is an artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279. Astronomers connected the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), in Chile, to the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, USA, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona, USA for the first time, to make the sharpest observations ever, of the centre of a distant galaxy, the bright quasar 3C 279. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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An Active Galactic Nucleus
Artist's impression of an active galaxy that has jets. The central engine is thought to be a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc and enshrouded in a dusty doughnut-shaped torus. The torus of dust and gas can be seen orbiting a flatter disc of swirling gas. Courtesy Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University. Credit: ESO
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The Horsehead Nebula
A reproduction of a composite colour image of the Horsehead Nebula and its immediate surroundings. It is based on three exposures in the visual part of the spectrum with the FORS2 multi-mode instrument at the 8.2-m KUEYEN telescope at Paranal. This image is available as a mounted image in the ESOshop. Credit: ESO
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Neils Bohr
Gelar master fisika ia peroleh tahun 1909 dan akhirnya gelar doctor fisika ia peroleh tahun 1911. Ia kemudian memilih tinggal Cambridge dan bekerja di laboratorium Cavendish di bawah bimbingan JJ Thomson sambil mengembangkan teori-teorinya. Tahun 1912 ia kemudian pindah ke kota Manchaster bekerja di laboratorium Prof. Rutherford dan menjadikannya semakin intensif dalam aktivitas sains. Beranjak dari teori mengenai penyerapan sinar alfa, Bohr mempelajari struktur atom dengan dasar penemuan Rutherford tentang inti atom. Dengan merujuk teori kuantum yang ditemukan Plant, ia kemudian berhasil menampilkan sebuah gambaran mengenai inti atom. Dengan berbagai penemuan Heisenbreg model atom Bohr berhasil menguraikan perangkat fisika dan kimia element tersebut. Atas karnyanya ini Bohr mendapatkan hadiah Nobel Fisika tahun 1916. Tahun 1913-1914 Bohr menjadi dosen fisika di Universitas Kopenhagen, kemudian pindah menjadi dosen fisika Universitas Victoria di Manchester. Tahun 1916 ia kemudian diangkat guru besar fisika Universitas Kopenhagen dan mendirikan Institut Fisika Teoritis di Universitas tempatnya mengajar. Selain sumbangannya mengenai model atom, masih ada sederet sumbangan lain Bohr di bidang fisika. Ia menghasilkan sekitar 115 karya. Tiga diantaranya diterbitkan dalam bahasa inggris yaitu : Theory and Spektra and Atomic Constitutiom (1922), Atomic Theory and Description of Nature (1934), The Unity of Knowledge (1955).