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Science 9 August 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5583, pp. 947 - 948
DOI: 10.1126/science.1074957
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Black Holes Reveal Their Innermost Secrets

A. C. Fabian and J. M. Miller

Accreting black holes can be powerful emitters of radiation. In their Perspective, Fabian and Miller show that iron lines in the emission spectrum of black holes can provide unprecedented insights into the innermost regions surrounding the black hole. The data provide support for spinning black holes and will help to test models of accretion and emission from black holes.

A. C. Fabian is at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK. E-mail: acf{at}ast.cam.ac.uk J. M. Miller is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: jmm{at}space.mit.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)