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Milky Way's Galactic Center --The Site of a Collision of Black Holes 10 Million Years Ago
There is growing evidence that several million years ago the galactic center was the site of violent cosmic events. A team of assistant professors – Kelly Holley-Bockelmann at Vanderbilt and Tamara Bogdanović at Georgia Institute of Technology – came up with an explanation that fits these “forensic” clues, suggesting how a single event – a violent collision and merger between the galactic black hole and an intermediate-sized black hole in one of the small “satellite galaxies” that circle the Milky Way – could have produced the features that point to a more violent past for the galactic core.
A dangerously cool sight, if one could witness such event.
There is growing evidence that several million years ago the galactic center was the site of violent cosmic events. A team of assistant professors – Kelly Holley-Bockelmann at Vanderbilt and Tamara Bogdanović at Georgia Institute of Technology – came up with an explanation that fits these “forensic” clues, suggesting how a single event – a violent collision and merger between the galactic black hole and an intermediate-sized black hole in one of the small “satellite galaxies” that circle the Milky Way – could have produced the features that point to a more violent past for the galactic core.
A dangerously cool sight, if one could witness such event.
