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The giant gas cloud is on its way to collide with black hole in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy in mid 2013. Earthlings will have a unique opportunity watch how a super-massive black hole will absorb into space objects in real time.
The black hole with the formal name Sagittarius A * has long occupied the minds of astronomers. Its mass is hundreds of thousands of times greater than the mass of the sun. Presumably, each of the galaxies has such a super-massive hole in the center. European South gas cloud The observatory will pass just 36 light years from it (equivalent 40,000,000,000 km), which is very small by astronomical standards. AND the impending collision may shed light on some features of the structure and behavior of black holes.
It is currently known that cloud speed doubled over the past 7 years and amounts to 8 million km / h. Cloud edges already gradually “sucks” into a black hole, and in the coming months it completely absorb this object, preheating strongly his. Perhaps after a collision with a black hole appears additional ultraviolet radiation and strong radio signal after the high-energy breaks out of the collision system plasma flow.
Galaxy black hole
