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Old 26-05-2009, 05:37 PM
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MW's black hole

Here is a Spitzer IR telescope image of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy.
http://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/I...me=ssc2006-02b
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_image...02b_medium.jpg
The Milky Way Center Aglow with Dust
"The final inset to the right shows the center of our galaxy, which is the brightest spot in the entire mosaic. The brightness is a result of dust being heated up by a compact cluster of hot stars. The bright spot also marks the location of a supermassive black hole, around which a rotating ring of gas and dust known as the circumnuclear disk can be seen."
More Spitzer images are at: http://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/I...nomical_Images
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