Friday 12 December 2008

Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole with Natural Magnifying Glasses

Source: ESO

Combining a double natural "magnifying glass" with the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinised the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
They were able to study the disc with a level of detail a thousand times better than that of the best telescopes in the world, providing the first observational confirmation of the prevalent theoretical models of such discs.(read more)

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