How does the prevailing model for activity explain the hot ejected gas seen in active galaxies?

A. It is energy released as matter is funneled into a black hole.
B. It is gas evaporating from an accretion disk around a massive black hole.
C. It is shot out of a black hole.
D. It is material trapped between two orbiting black holes being gravitationally scattered.
E. It is a rip in space-time from which Hawking radiation is released.


Answer: B

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