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#20355 04/13/07 01:17 AM
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"April 12, 2007: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed a remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole, allowing a disk of hot matter swirling around the hole to be measured for the first time.

The supermassive black hole is located in NGC 1365, a spiral galaxy 60 million light years from Earth. It contains a so-called active galactic nucleus, or AGN. Scientists believe that a black hole at the center of the AGN is fed a steady stream of material from a surrounding disk."

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12apr_blackholeeclipse.htm?list102496


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Wonderful find Rose. Thanks.


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