Friday, September 13, 2013

APOD 1.2

Posted on September 6th, 2013, this picture shows the supermassice black hole located at the center of our galaxy. Also know as Sagittarius A*, the black hole swallows up gases within its gravitaional influence. However, only about 1% of the gases in its proximity actually reach its event horizon (boundary in which the events within it cannot affect the outside observer) lose enough energy to be consumed by this monster.

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