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Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole is Feasting on Asteroids
For the past several years, the Chandra telescope has detected X-ray flares occurring about once a day from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. These flares last a few hours with brightness ranging from a few times to nearly one hundred times that of the black hole’s regular output. [...]
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A Black Hole Brings New Stars To Life
Astrophysicists have identified a black hole that's causing new stars to form. (Image Credit: Mark Crockett)
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Milky Way's black hole found grazing on asteroids
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers.
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NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole Grazing on Asteroids
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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I want to take the first picture of a black hole
Images of a black hole could test general relativity as well as prove they exist, says astronomer Dan Marrone
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New Telescope to Take First-Ever Black Hole Photo
A group of astronomers are meeting this week to plan out an ambitious and unprecedented project — capturing the first-ever image of a black hole.
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How to Picture a Black Hole
This month, researchers are inaugurating the Event Horizon Telescope, a project that will try to take the first detailed pictures of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole
( University of Arizona ) Researchers are gearing up to take the first picture ever taken of a black hole. By stringing together radio telescopes across the globe, they are building an Earth-sized, virtual telescope powerful enough to see all the way to the center of our Milky Way where a supermassive black hole is devouring matter caught in its extreme gravitational field. In the process, they ...
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The groundbreaking plan to photograph a black hole
Scientists want to build an enormous "virtual telescope" capable of taking a picture of a massive black hole 26,000 light years away
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First Picture of Black Hole?
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that.
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