Milky Way's supermassive black hole is snoozing

Posted on Friday, 4 February, 2005 | 0 comments

If Galileo or Newton had invented a top-notch gamma-ray telescope in the mid-1600s, they might have witnessed a dazzling display of gamma rays from the colossal black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The finding, based on observations by a space telescope, suggests that the black hole might flare up again in the future, though no one quite knows when.The Milky Way, like most big galaxies, harbours a supermassive black hole at its centre.

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