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Very Large Telescope Observes Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart By Black Hole

Posted by Unknown on from the twirling-toward-oblivion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New observations (PDF) from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the closest point and is traveling away from the black hole at more than 10 million km/h, whilst the tail is still falling towards it."

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  1. Re:wow by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Goat.cx, gas-cloud rips YOUR black-hole!

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