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Post-doctoral fellow Sukanya Chakrabarti and astronomy professor Leo Blitz have developed a method to search for satellite galaxies that are too “dark” to see, and have predicted that the Milky Way has a companion dwarf galaxy not yet discovered.
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Disaster looms for gas cloud falling into Milky Way’s central black hole
December 14, 2011:
Astronomers led by UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel, also of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, have observed a cloud of gas several times the mass of Earth approaching the 4.3 million solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Theorist Eliot Quataert calculates that the cloud will not survive the encounter, but will be heated and shredded in 2013.
