Saturday, 5. October 2002
Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 11:01:58 PM CEST
Black Hole Spiral
The Keck II telescope has captured a spiral of dust being sucked into the black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy's core. Using a camera nicknamed MIRLIN, for Mid-Infrared Large-Well Imager, a team of scientists led by Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, has acquired the highest mid-infrared resolution ever of the mysterious galactic center. The three-million-solar-mass black hole cannot be seen directly, but it betrays itself by its gravitational influence on its neighbors.
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