Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Our Black Hole Gets Fed

Hey SPace Placers!

Our Milky Way Galaxy has a supermassive black hole just as many other galaxies do, residing at its center.

A new NASA satellite has been able to actually capture our black hole in the processing of feeding on some type of matter which caused it to flare up

Pointing X-ray Eyes at our Resident Supermassive Black Hole

NuSTAR picked up the 180 million degree flare up from Sagittarius A-Star, or Sgr A* for short, during a several day observing run.

Read More ABout It: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-333

Sky Guy in VA

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