Stig Östlund

onsdag, oktober 31, 2018

Trolling The Monster In The Heart Of The Milky Way







There’s a great article in today’s New York Times about new, very compelling evidence for a supermassive black hole lurking in the heart of the Milky Way.Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team led by astronomer Reinhard Genzel has peered closer to the black hole’s edge than ever before. They observed clumps of gas zipping around at nearly one-third the speed of light, held in the gravitational clutches of an invisible object weighing more than four million Suns.

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