Black Hole Spits X-Rays From Our Galaxy's Core | Video

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Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes combined data to produce these views of Sagittarius A*. Less than 1% of the hot gas around this black hole will actually 'fall' into it.

Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/UMass/D.Wang et al/STScI

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