Zooming into the Heart of Centaurus A
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Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (of which two Maunakea observatories are a part) have zoomed into the heart of Centaurus A for the first time — at the center of which lies a black hole with the mass of 55 million suns.
Read more, in the Submillimeter Array press release.
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