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ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Black hole naps amidst stellar chaos

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT

Nearly a decade ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), which sees higher-energy X-ray light, has taken a peek and found the black hole asleep.

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