Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Sharper images of a supermassive black hole reveals new secrets

An artist's rendition of a supermassive black hole, such as the one at the center of ...

Studying black holes is a tricky business, but not always because they're so dim – to the contrary, in some cases it's hard to see through the bright cloud of hot gas that surrounds them. Now, a team of astronomers has used a global array of telescopes to peer through that fog and capture some of the clearest radio images yet of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And it may indicate that the object just happens to be pointing directly at Earth.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2sG3Vqn

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