Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Milky Way Centre: Black Hole Consumes Gas Cloud - Video



25,000 light years from Earth, at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a super-massive black hole has so distorted space-time that a cloud of gas, ripped from nearby stars, has stretched and accelerated to more than 1% the speed of light. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory

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