Our black hole’s violent meeting with G2 began last year, and as it continues, it should give astronomers a chance to peer inside the galactic center — the neighborhood around the black hole — rather than just simulate the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding it.
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The shadowy area around the supermassive black hole in our galaxy’s center may light up this year, as it shreds G2 — an interloper that is either a cloud of gas and dust or a star cocooned in such a cloud — which ventured too close. Black holes are virtually invisible unless they’re actively destroying something.
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