In an article today in the Sydney Morning Herald, Marcus Strom
reports on evidence of a star orbiting a black hole at just 2.5
times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
The black hole and star are in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
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Originally Posted by Marcus Strom, SMH
Astronomers made the discovery using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, operated by CSIRO near Narrabri in NSW, backed up with data from two of NASA's space telescopes, Chandra X-ray Observatory and NuStar.
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Originally Posted by Marcus Strom, SMH
The white dwarf star X9 orbits what is very likely a black hole every 28 minutes at an astonishing 12 million kilometres an hour.
That's 1 per cent the speed of light.
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Article here :-
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...14-guxh1d.html