Saturday, July 25, 2009

Monstrous Black Hole found


In yet another major finding NASA has discovered a massive Black Hole at the center of a galaxy which is about 50 million light years away from us. The Massive Black Hole is about 100 million times the mass of our sun. The star-ringed black hole forms the eye of a galaxy called NGC-1097 which was photographed by the US space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope in California.
The galaxy in the photograph is spiral-shaped, like our Milky Way, and extends long arms of red stars into space. The picture shows a fiery ring around the black hole which is packed with brightly-burning newborn stars. The blue dot next to the galaxy depicts another companion

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