Ping!
That’s racist!
A bit alarming when you realize that every atom in our bodies is also in the grip of that monster 30,000 light-years away. The Sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy once every approximate 250 million years.
so we can see a cloud 3 x earth mass at a distance of 27000 light years, and we can see it through the blocking influence of the galactic center albeit by utilizing xray and/or infrared telescopes....or do they see this with radio telescopes.
seems almost impossible as we struggle to find Jupiter size bodies at much closer distances....
also I have been schooled in the black hole phenomenon, that because of time dilation, we could watch something, from a safe distance, approach a black hole but it would never appear to enter it.
this article needs help....
OK here it is....a nice concise explanation of most of it
scroll down and watch the video
http://www.space.com/21994-giant-black-hole-devours-space-cloud.html
It’s “First Dinner”? How’d it get so big if it hadn’t been eating for billions of years?
We’re watching it in March, but actually it already happened a while back.