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Astronomers have discovered a giant black hole

Астрономы открыли гигантскую черную дыруIt is very different from those that have previously been observed by scientists.

Employees of the Technological University of Chalmers in Sweden has noticed a growing giant black hole in the center of the galaxy.

Located at a distance of 70 million light-years from our planet, it was called NGC 1377, reports the Chronicle.info, with reference to hitech-news.

Noted that to notice a black hole, scientists have succeeded in using radio telescopes Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in the Atacama desert in Chile. The process of observation of astronomers presented in the international scientific journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Experts say that their attention was attracted by a bright dusty center of the galaxy, but they did not expect to find a long narrow jet. Its length is 500 light years and a diameter of 60. However, he differs from those previously observed by scientists.

“It’s too cold, and the light goes from a dense gas of molecules,” — said one of the leaders of the study Susan Aalto.

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