Gas Cloud Will Collide with our Galaxy’s Black Hole in 2013

Scientists have determined a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of our galaxy, and the two will be close enough by mid-2013 to provide a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real time. This will give astronomers more information on how matter behaves near a black hole.“The next few years will be really fantastic and exciting because we are probing new territory,” said Reinhard Genzel, leading a team from the ESO in observations with the Very Large Telescope. “Here this cloud comes in gets disrupted and now it will begin to interact with the hot gas right around the black hole. We have never seen this before.” (...)Read the rest of Gas Cloud Will Collide with our Galaxy’s Black Hole in 2013 (511 words)© nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Black Holes, ESO, Sagittarius A*, VLT Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh