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January 15, 2013

Cloudy Mystery Bursts From Milkyway Center
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2013
It's the mystery of the curiously dense cloud. And astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are on the case. Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a supermassive black hole three million times as massive as the sun-a black hole whose gravity is strong enough to grip stars that are whipping around it at thousands of kilometers per second-one particular cloud has baffled astronomers. Indeed, the cloud, dubbed G0.253+0.016, defies the ru ... read more

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