http://motherboard.tv/2011/12/14/astronomers-find-supermassive-black-hole-gobbling-down-a-gassy-meal--2 "Black holes are basically celestial Cookie Monsters, gobbling anything and everything in sight. But because that appetite includes light itself, it's incredibly rare for us to actually see a black hole suck back an interstellar treat. Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have found just that: a mysterious, giant gas cloud that's rapidly been pulled into the maw of a supermassive black hole. The researchers, led by Reinhard Genzel of the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, discovered the cloud as part of a now 20-year ESO program tasked with tracking stars as they whirl around the supermassive black hole, known as Sgr A*, at the center of our galaxy"
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siftbotsays...Moving this video to deathcow's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
Boise_Libsays...*quality
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Boise_Lib.
Ryjkyjsays...When it goes backwards, from 2004 to 2002, I'm guessing that's "lensing" in the upper right corner. Anyone agree?
rich_magnetsays...This is a much better version of a video I found a few years ago, which has a nice narration of the details of the video:
http://videosift.com/video/Black-Hole-at-the-Galactic-Core
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