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# Black Hole, Big Appetite
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/black-hole-big-appetite/
- Published: 1998-05-15T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-04T12:20:25.000Z
- Description: New images of a voracious black hole gobbling the leftovers of a small galaxy in Earth's neighborhood could help astronomers learn…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

New images of a voracious black hole gobbling the leftovers of a small galaxy in Earth's neighborhood could help astronomers learn more about these mysterious phenomena, NASA said Thursday. In a picture of galactic cannibalism, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of a black hole at the center of the giant galaxy Centaurus A, just 10 million light-years from Earth.  
  
A light-year is about 6 trillion miles. The suspected black hole - the existence of these matter-sucking phenomena has not been absolutely confirmed - is shown feeding on the remnants of a smaller galaxy, astronomers said.  
  
(c) Reuters