Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles. Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles.
"A familiar shadow looms in a fresh image of the heart of the nearby galaxy M87," reports Science magazine.
"It confirms that the galaxy harbors a gravitational sinkhole so powerful that light cannot escape, one generated by a black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun."
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The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a synergy grant, named BlackHolistic, of 14 million euro to a team of Dutch, British, Finnish and Namibian astronomers to make.