Science: "Globe-spanning telescope array glimpses magnetic field around Milky Way’s black hole"

December 3, 2015
Artist's depiction of a black hole

"A wide-ranging array of radio dishes trained on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has revealed a glimpse of the magnetic field close to the Milky Way’s dark heart. The results could help explain why black holes, although not emitting any light themselves, are able to make the churning gas and dust around them shine with the brightness of thousands of stars."

"Globe-spanning telescope array glimpses magnetic field around Milky Way’s black hole" by Daniel Clery for Science

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