Why galactic black hole fireworks were a flop (original) (raw)

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Giant 'G2' cloud at centre of Milky Way could be falling in a continuous stream, without the spectacle astronomers were hoping for.

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An earlier version of this article stated that Ghez's team reporter its findings in a telegram of the International Astronomical Union. Instead, they did so in the Astronomer's Telegram.

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Simulation of G2’s passage by Sagittarius A*

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Cowen, R. Why galactic black hole fireworks were a flop.Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.15591

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