A false-color X-ray picture of the Abell 2104 cluster of is overlaid on an optical image. X-ray emissions are produced by hot gas (blue areas near center of image) and by accretion of dust and gas onto supermassive black holes (the smaller blue patches on the outskirts of the image). There are six times more black holes than expected.

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