Black hole

Scientists are now watching an incredible event: in the middle of our Milky Way galaxy is a huge black hole Sgr A * is about preparing to absorb the gas cloud G2.

Space Monster, it is likely in itself contains a dim star. According to scientists, at the time of death it will be a cloud brighter than our sun shine 100 times. During the show will be watching the astronomers through infrared telescopes. The death of a gas cloud will happen in the summer of 2013, and until astronomers are going to begin to study the absorption of foreign objects by supermassive black holes. Will ordinary people see something in the night sky, is still unknown.

Recall that astrophysicists are called black holes a region of space-time with extremely strong gravitational field. What would it neither got back, it will not come back. This is true even of light, which is why black holes, and got its name: the body absorbs all the light falling on it, and do not emit their own sounds absolutely black. And so they are invisible. Scientists judge the existence of black holes only on the radiation that is emitted falling into them, and warmed up with the cosmic body.

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