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ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


SOFIA spots recent starbursts in the Milky Way galaxy's center

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 03:58 PM PST

Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and of a neighboring cluster of extremely luminous young stars embedded in dust cocoons.

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