An international team led by the Max Planck Institute and including two researchers of Paris Observatory, have observed in the infra-red domain luminous flashes coming from the environment of the supermassive black hole located at the center of our Galaxy. These flashes evolve very quickly in time and would come from hot gas falling into the black hole, right before its final absorption by the "monster". These results were obtained with the instrument NAOS-CONICA (NACO) installed on the Very Large Telescope of ESO and are published in the Nature of 30/10/03.
Référence :
- R. Genzel, R, Shödel, T. Ott, A. Eckart, T. Alexander, F. Lacombe, D. Rouan, B. Aschenbach : "Near-IR Flares from Accreting Gas around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Center", revue Nature du 30 Octobre 2003
Contact
- Daniel Rouan
Observatoire de Paris, LESIA - François Lacombe
Observatoire de Paris, LESIA