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Giant black hole stretches gas cloud to the limit

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The G2 gas cloud is rounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole like a comet.

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Powell, D. Giant black hole stretches gas cloud to the limit. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.13405

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