What purpose does this swirling potential super massive black hole serve in the running of our galaxy? What wonders of the architecture of the Creator be discovered next?
Knowest thou it, ...because the number of thy days is great?
Job 38:21
"Astronomers know that supermassive black holes, more than 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, inhabit the centers of most galaxies.
But scattered across the Universe are a few apparent black holes of a more mysterious type.
Ranging from 100 to 100,000 solar masses, these intermediate-mass black holes are so hard to measure that even their existence is sometimes disputed.
Dr. Shunya Takekawa from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and co-authors used ALMA to perform high resolution observations of HCN-0.009-0.044, a gas cloud moving strangely near the center of the Milky Way.
They concluded that HCN-0.009-0.044 is swirling around an invisible massive object.
“Detailed kinematic analyses revealed that an enormous mass — 32,000 times that of the Sun — was concentrated in a region much smaller than our Solar System,” Dr. Takekawa said.
HCN-0.009-0.044 is located at a projected distance of just 23 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy."
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Knowest thou it, ...because the number of thy days is great?
Job 38:21
"Astronomers know that supermassive black holes, more than 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, inhabit the centers of most galaxies.
But scattered across the Universe are a few apparent black holes of a more mysterious type.
Ranging from 100 to 100,000 solar masses, these intermediate-mass black holes are so hard to measure that even their existence is sometimes disputed.
Dr. Shunya Takekawa from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and co-authors used ALMA to perform high resolution observations of HCN-0.009-0.044, a gas cloud moving strangely near the center of the Milky Way.
They concluded that HCN-0.009-0.044 is swirling around an invisible massive object.
“Detailed kinematic analyses revealed that an enormous mass — 32,000 times that of the Sun — was concentrated in a region much smaller than our Solar System,” Dr. Takekawa said.
HCN-0.009-0.044 is located at a projected distance of just 23 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy."
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