New evidence of massive blackholes

  • 03/11/2005

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

Chinese scientists said they had gathered evidence that shows a giant object in the centre of our galaxy is a super-massive black hole. Zhi-Qiang Shen and researchers at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory captured radio waves emitted just beyond the edge of the mysterious object, known as Sagittarius A, with a system of 10 radio telescopes spread across the United States.