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Nature 413, 25-26 (6 September 2001) | doi:10.1038/35092644
X-rays from the edge of infinity
Fulvio Melia
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Abstract
The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy has a strong influence on its surroundings. Astronomers cannot yet see this beast directly but they now have a much better idea of its size.
The centre of the Milky Way lies behind a dusty cloud of gas and a clustering of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. The closest object to the actual centre, discovered in 1974 (ref.
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