I hope they get some awesome pictures out of this. I don't think they'll be recording it in the visible spectrum though. I wonder how they detect
the gas cloud if they have to observe with wavelengths of light that pass through the gas clouds around the center of the galaxy?
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Topic started on 14-12-2011 @ 02:02 PM by gortex
Astronomers will for the first time get to watch as the super massive Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy chows down on a gas cloud being attracted
toward it .
The event is expected to happen at the end of 2013 .
According to Mark Morris of the University of California Los Angeles "many telescopes are likely to be watching" , does this mean we will get decent pictures of this from Hubble
The event is expected to happen at the end of 2013 .
Though it is known that black holes draw in everything nearby, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud.
As it is torn apart, the turbulent area around the black hole will become unusually bright, giving astronomers a chance to learn more about it.
Researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope estimate that despite its size, the cloud has a total mass of only about three times that of Earth.
They have plotted the cloud's squashed, oval-shaped path and estimate it has doubled its speed in the last seven years - to 2,350km per second.
www.bbc.co.uk...
According to Mark Morris of the University of California Los Angeles "many telescopes are likely to be watching" , does this mean we will get decent pictures of this from Hubble
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