
28-11-2006, 10:59 PM
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admirer of the sky
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Germany
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ESA’s Integral space observatory has spotted a blast of gamma rays from a suspected black hole in the Milky Way:
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8SDANMUE_index_0.html
In these systems, the gravity of the black hole is ripping the Sun-like star to pieces. As the doomed star orbits the black hole, it lays down its gas in a disc, know as an accretion disc, surrounding the black hole.
But it seem to happen not in the right centre of our galaxy but in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole there.
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This is allowing astronomers to understand the gamma-ray characteristics of the galactic centre and its celestial objects, better than ever before.
Comparing the shape of the light curve to others on file revealed that this was an eruption thought to come from a binary star system in which one component is a star like our Sun whereas the other is a black hole.
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not mentoined the problem of dark matter,
is it not of topical interest for astronomers?
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