To within minutes of a black hole

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• Prof Andy Fabian
• Thursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00
• Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr James Kirkbride.

First talk of term!

The nucleus of most galaxies contains a massive black hole. Some accrete gas at high rate producing a luminous source of X-rays. Our observations of one such source shows behaviour indicating that the observed matter is only light minutes away from the horizon of the black hole. The results will be shown and simply explained.

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