Celestial lab
astronomers have found a black hole in the Milky Way, far closer to home than expected, an unexpected bonus that will help them carry out many scientific inquiries in this celestial lab.
The super dense black holes are strange celestial bodies. They are extremely dense objects, so dense that the gravity of the mass does not let even light escape. They follow as a direct consequence of the theory of gravity and scientists till date have only modeled and projected that they exist in our universe. And before this discovery there was no actual verification of their presence. Now, a group of scientists might have the clinching evidence for their existence in the center of our galaxy. F Baganoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, usa, and his team have reported detecting an x-Ray pulse coming from the center of the galaxy. The properties of the pulse make it very likely that they are caused by a massive black hole sucking in matter.
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