If the inner accretion disk around a black hole has a temperature of 10^6 K, at what wavelength will it radiate the most energy? (Hint: From Wien's law, ?T =3,000,000 where ? is in nm and T is in K.)

a. 10^6 nm
b. 3 nm
c. 3 × 10^6 nm
d. 1 nm
e. 3 × 10^11 nm


b

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