Ultra-sensitive radio telescope debuts in South Africa

Researchers have produced a panorama of the Milky Way galaxy’s center (which contains a supermassive black hole) using radio, infrared and X-ray wavelengths that penetrate the gas and dust thwarting conventional telescopes. The image isn’t just pretty — it shows many of the sources of magnetized filament structures near the black hole that previously remained …

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