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11-09-2004, 03:06 AM
Dear Friends,
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041108/full/041108-2.html
Be Well, BE LOVE.
David
Second black hole found at the centre of our GalaxyMark Peplow Seven stars
orbiting the region identify the invisible object.
A second black hole lurks at the centre of our Galaxy, according to astronomers
who have watched a cluster of stars spinning around it.
Just three years ago, astronomers confirmed that the Milky Way revolves around a
supermassive black hole1, called Sagittarius A*, which is about 2.6 million
times more massive than the Sun.
But now a much smaller black hole, just 1,300 times our Sun's mass, has been
found orbiting about three light years away from its supermassive cousin.
Jean-Pierre Maillard, an astronomer from the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris,
France, led a team that looked at a very bright area of the galactic core called
IRS 13, previously thought by astronomers to be a single object.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041108/full/041108-2.html
Be Well, BE LOVE.
David
Second black hole found at the centre of our GalaxyMark Peplow Seven stars
orbiting the region identify the invisible object.
A second black hole lurks at the centre of our Galaxy, according to astronomers
who have watched a cluster of stars spinning around it.
Just three years ago, astronomers confirmed that the Milky Way revolves around a
supermassive black hole1, called Sagittarius A*, which is about 2.6 million
times more massive than the Sun.
But now a much smaller black hole, just 1,300 times our Sun's mass, has been
found orbiting about three light years away from its supermassive cousin.
Jean-Pierre Maillard, an astronomer from the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris,
France, led a team that looked at a very bright area of the galactic core called
IRS 13, previously thought by astronomers to be a single object.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]