Earth-sized telescope finds clue to black hole growth

Earth-sized telescope finds clue to black hole growth Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2015 - A new discovery, published in the journal Science, has greatly deepened our understanding black holes, which are believed to be the gravitational engines at the centres of most galaxies, including our own. Using an array of telescopes that spans the globe, astronomers detected evidence of magnetic fields near Sagittarius A*, the 4.5-million-solar-mass black hole at the centre of the Milky ... more

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