Milky Way's black hole probed closer than ever before


	Milky Way's black hole probed closer than ever before

tabsey

1-21-2008 1:46 AM

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tabsey says:

40 sec video ( would have been a better coincidence if it had been 42 secs) You gotta love these space animations.

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<DIV class="straptext">This animation zooms in on the centre of the Milky Way using images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It ends with an artist's conception of the galaxy's central black hole, Sgr A*, and a disc of matter that undergoes a flare as it falls into the hole (Courtesy of NASA/CXC)</DIV>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13193-milky-ways-black-hole-probed-closer-than-ever-before.html?feedId=space_rss20"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PYDVC_fPc8I" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13193-milky-ways-black-hole-probed-closer-than-ever-before.html?feedId=space_rss20"><P>We are close to seeing the true blackness of a black hole. Astronomers have detected radio emission coming from within 30 million kilometres of the dark object, thought to be a colossal black hole, that lies at the centre of the galaxy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13193-milky-ways-black-hole-probed-closer-than-ever-before.html?feedId=space_rss20"><P>Previously, astronomers could see no closer than 100 million kilometres from the object, called SgrA*. The new observation zooms within three times the radius of the hole's <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19225751.200-the-elephant-and-the-event-horizon.html">event horizon</A>, the boundary beyond which any matter, light or radiation is inevitably sucked in.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D39EAEA0-903E-4B65-A343-53ECF02BB673/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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