It's the cosmic event of the year. Right now, telescopes all over the world are turning to our galaxy's center, where for the first time ever they may have a front-row look at a supermassive black hole consuming a gas cloud.
By observing this galactic snack fest, astronomers should be able to figure out what's going on in the black hole's immediate vicinity and potentially even witness some gas disappear into the massive objects maw. What they see may help scientists solve a decades-old puzzle about why our galaxy's central black hole is so quiet.
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