The Mystery In The Clouds

There's a mystery in them there clouds - but astronomers at Caltech are on the case. Near the crowded galactic center, billowing clouds of gas and dust hide a supermassive black hole 3,000,000X as massive as our sun, Its gravity is strong enough to grip stars that are whipping around it at thousands of kilometers per second. One particular cloud named G0.253+0.016 has delighted astronomers. Because scientists love a mystery.  G0.253+0.016 defies the rules of star formation. But apparently those are more guidelines than rules. read more

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