Flares from the Direction of the Black Hole in the Galactic Centre

Details Flares from the Direction of the Black Hole in the Galactic Centre Flares from the Direction of the Black Hole in the Galactic Centre

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003msngr.114...43.&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 114, p. 43-43

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In recent dramatic observations using NAOS-CONICA on the VLT, near-infrared flares from the direction of the the black hole at the Galactic centre have been detected.The signals, rapidly flickering on a scale of minutes, must come from hot gas falling into the black hole, just before it disappears below the "event horizon" of the monster. The new observations strongly suggest that the Galactic Centre black hole rotates rapidly. Never before have scientists been able to study phenomena in the immediate neighbourhood of a black hole in such a detail. These results were published recently by Reinhard Genzel and colleagues* in the journal Nature**, and were presented in ESO Press release PR 26/03.

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