Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Probed Like Never Before

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 17:15 in Astronomy & Space

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon — the "point of no return" beyond which nothing can escape — of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, which is known as Sagittarius A*.

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