LINK Supermassive Black Hole Caught Sucking Energy From Nearby Starlight
Astronomers have long had their eye on a group of stars that precariously circles just outside the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. And, in a discovery announced by the European Southern Observatory on Thursday, scientists say they’ve finally spotted one of these stars as it travels through the black hole’s gravitational field. It’s the first test of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity near a supermassive black hole....
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Incredible! That star came to within 12 billion miles of the super massive black hole! That's not much farther away than Voyager 1 is to us! Way too close for comfort ... thanks for this one!
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Very cool. I've been fascinated by that kind of thing since I was a kid.
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