Pinpointing origin of gamma rays from a supermassive black hole
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 13:42
in Astronomy & Space
An international collaboration of 390 scientists reports the discovery of an outburst of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M 87), accompanied by a strong rise of the radio flux measured from the direct vicinity of its super-massive black hole.
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