A black hole's dinner is fast approaching

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 15:30 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating fast towards the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed.

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