Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Predictive Dormancy Purple-Exed. SPACE.com Image of the Day A super-massive black hole seems strangely dormant. The NGC 4649 galaxy contains one of the biggest black holes in the local universe, but shows no obvious signs of rapidly sucking in material or generating large amounts of light. The smoothness of the image indicates that the hot gas producing the X-rays has not been disturbed by the growing black hole. By (SPACE.com). [SPACE.com Image of the Day] 7:32:47 PM