EARLY FINDINGS ABOUT THE GALACTIC CENTER TO BE PRESENTED AT KECK SCIENCE MEETING SEPTEMBER 17

MAUNA KEA (Aug. 27, 2004) New images of the galactic center will be presented at the 2004 Keck Science Meeting on September 17 at the UCLA Campus in Los Angeles. The new pictures clearly show hot plasma material being devoured by a black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, about 24,000 light years away. The findings were made possible by a new laser guide star system on the Keck II telescope at Mauna Kea which is giving some of the clearest, highest resolution images ever taken of a region near a black hole. A wide-field mosaic image of the galactic center and an animated movie of the plasma flare will be released to the public September 17th......

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