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Incredibly Detailed Image of Our Galaxy's Center Shows How Things Move Around a Black Hole
Category: Technology
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Publish Date: 2018-03-01 15:33:35
Description: There’s a black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy. It has 4 million times the mass of the sun, but is only around the size of Mercury’s orbit. It’s 26,000 light years away, but let’s say some unfortunate mishap brought you within a light year or two of that behemoth. What would happen? An international team of researchers collected data on a property called the polarization of light coming from the center of the Milky Way.
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