Galaxy's Heart Beats in X-Rays

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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2011 · Science & Technology

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A supermassive black hole in the galaxy GRS 1915+105 spins and swallows stellar material with an even rhythmic pattern, the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered. Credit: NASA/CXC/Harvard/J.Neilsen et al & A.Hobart

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