An international team of astronomers have provided compelling evidence that we have a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. |
Type II's derive from a supermassive red giant whose core collapses when it runs out of fuel, and then rebounds in a titanic explosion. |
Unlike a forest sustaining a small population of predators, most galaxies have only one supermassive black hole. |
That unexpectedly collapses it into a black hole, a supermassive region with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape. |
Would Endurance even be able to fly that close to a supermassive black hole without being disintegrated by the force of it? |
Although astronomers are surprised to find a blue disk of stars swirling around a supermassive black hole, they also say the puzzling architecture may not be that unusual. |