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Article: Repaired Hubble finds giant black hole. (Hubble Space Telescope)
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- Science News
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- June 4, 1994
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After years of hunting for black holes, astronomers say they have found the first convincing proof that one exists at the center of a galaxy.
To find their quarry, the researchers used the repaired Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever before into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87, which lies 50 million light-years from Earth. Scientists have long suspected that M87, a powerful radio-wave emitter that has a jet of high-speed electrons squirting from its center, harbors a supermassive black hole. But they lacked conclusive proof.
The U.S. team announced last week that several lines of new evidence now confirm that a black hole, with ...