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Very Large Telescope Observes Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart By Black Hole 66

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the twirling-toward-oblivion dept.
An anonymous reader writes "New observations (PDF) from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the closest point and is traveling away from the black hole at more than 10 million km/h, whilst the tail is still falling towards it."

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  • Re:Metric, you know? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:28PM (#44310545)

    http://www.vlf.it/frequency/bands.html

    There is already a precedent

    Extremely Large Telescope
    Super Large Telescope
    Ultra Large Telescope
    Very Large Telescope
    Large Telescope
    Medium Telescope
    Small Telescope
    Very Small Telescope
    Ultra Small Telescope
    Super Small Telescope
    Extremely Small Telescope

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