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The Cosmic Terminus: Quasars and Accretion Disks

The brightest shining lights in the universe glimmer from the darkest objects that populate it: black holes. However because of the massive presence of angular momentum these spheres of annihilation create whirlpools of matter, rather than it simply falling in. These material vortexes are under such strain that they glow brighter than any star. We'll discuss what angular momentum is, why black holes have it, and the circumstances that Quasars and Blasars form in.