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A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 8 describing a new study that suggests mysterious X-ray flares from the center of the Milky Way caught by Chandra may be asteroids falling into the Milky Way's giant black hole. [more]
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NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole May be Grazing on Asteroids
This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the center of our Galaxy, with a supermassive black hole...
[More (08 Feb 12)]
This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the center of our Galaxy, with a supermassive black hole...
[More (08 Feb 12)]
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