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Astronomers Surprised: Stars Born Near Black Hole

13 October 2005

Black holes are best known for ripping stars apart, but new observations of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way show that it?s actually helping stars form.

Until now, scientists had disagreed about the origin of a collection of massive stars orbiting less than a light-year from our galaxy?s central black hole, which scientists call Sagittarius A*. The stars were first seen by infrared telescopes.

The new finding, based on observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, confirms the theory that black holes can help form massive stars and gives more support to the idea that black holes play a big role in galaxy formation.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051013_blackhole_stars.html

Do you know what maverick stars are?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do Rob:

Here are their names; Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, James Coburn, Graham Greene, Alfred Molina, Dub Taylor, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul L. Smith, Dan Hedaya, Dennis Fimple, Denver Pyle, Clint Black, Max Perlich, Art Lafleur, Leo Gordon, Jean De Baer, Paul Brinegar, Hal Ketchum, Corey Feldman, Donal Gibson, Bert Remsen, Doug McClure, Henry Darrow, Michael Paul Chan, and William Marshall.

Maverick Stars:

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/star_names_030829.html

Note to Rob:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/sgra/sgra.jpg

The above Maverick Stars' names, being used by Harvard scientists,
have not been adopted by IAU (International Astronomical Union);

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/sgra/

Wow so black holes are celestial recycling centres I always thought they destroyed matter and emitted energy, don?t ask me where I picked that up from it sounded logical enough *reading link now*