Scientists Find Black Hole 'Missing Link'
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 14:14
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes. For the first time the researchers have discovered that a strong X-ray pulse is emitting from a giant black hole in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth. The pulse has been created by gas being sucked by gravity on to the black hole at the center of the galaxy.