Gas Cloud Ripped Apart (IMAGE)

ESO

Gas Cloud Ripped Apart

Caption

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Shown here are VLT observations from 2006, 2010 and 2013, colored blue, green and red respectively.

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ESO/S. Gillessen

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