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Posted on 01/14/2014 5:41:54 AM PST by C19fan
The Milky Way’s black hole is about to gobble up its first dinner, and astronomers are hoping to have front row seats when it happens. A huge gas cloud, about three times the mass of Earth, is on course to collide with the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy in March. Astronomers expect the gas cloud will swing so close to the black hole that it will heat up to the point where it produces spectacular X-rays.
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Especially after it’s been in the fridge for awhile. Don’t very much like eating warm and partially melted chocolate candy bars. They need to be chilled.
Nature Review
The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution:
(22-page pdf file)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.1608.pdf
Here's an explanation from a different article and different case.
"The idea is that as the cloud speeds past these small black holes - some slightly more massive than our Sun but just a few tens of km across - gas will spiral around them faster and faster, heating up to millions of degrees and emitting X-ray light." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22694229
Discovery of huge black hole raises doubts about how galaxies are formed:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/11/29/discovery_of_huge_black_hole_raises_doubts_about_how_galaxies_are_formed.html
We’re watching it in March, but actually it already happened a while back.
Scientists have found nougat in the center of the Milky Way
Thanks left that other site, extra to APoD.
and a chocolate coating!
This may be a discovery of exceptional gravity.
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