A Disk of Gas Orbits a Supermassive Black Hole

question 56

Multiple Choice

A disk of gas orbits a supermassive black hole.What can astronomers use to determine the mass of the black hole from the properties of this disk?

• A) Wien's law
• B) the Doppler shift
• C) Polarization
• D) the Stefan-Boltzmann law

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