Tuesday, 25 November 2008

VLT and APEX Team Up to Study Flares from the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Core

Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. They have detected outbursts from this region, known as Sagittarius A*, which reveal material being stretched out as it orbits in the intense gravity close to the central black hole.
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