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The supermassive black hole orbits an even more massive black hole, colliding through its accretion disk every 12 years

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[ad_1] From nasa Spitzer Space Telescope He may be removed, but the things he witnessed during his sixteen-and-a-half-year mission will be the subject of study for many years. For example, Spitzer It is the only telescope to witness something truly amazing happening in the center of the distant galaxy OJ 287: a supermassive black hole … Read more

Star seen “dancing” around supermassive black hole proves Einstein was right

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[ad_1] A star seen orbiting a supermassive black hole for the first time was just what Einstein’s general theory of relativity had predicted. The Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed the first sighting of a star orbiting a supermassive black hole in a rather unique way in the center of … Read more