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ScienceShot: Probing a Black Hole - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • Robert Ryshke on 31 Dec 11
     
    Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. Baganoff, R. Shcherbakov et al. How do you probe a supermassive black hole? Take a look at the pulsars that orbit it. These rapidly spinning neutron stars flash regular radio pulses, and in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal astronomers say that the timing of such pulses could provide a new understanding of the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
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