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Subject Milky Way's Giant Black Hole to Eat Space Cloud in 2013

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The colossal black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy will soon to get a big, tasty meal, astronomers say.

A humongous gas cloud is on a collision course for the Milky Way's core — the home of Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star"), which scientists suspect is a supermassive black hole with the mass of 4 million suns.

When the huge gas cloud arrives in the vicinity, which it will appear to us to do in mid-2013, it will surely be swallowed up by the hungry black hole, scientists say.

http://www.space.com/16388-milky-way-black-hole-eats-cloud.html

Supermassive black holes lie at the core of all massive galaxies, including the Milky Way. Whereas the majority of them are inactive, a small fraction of these black holes are accreting the surrounding matter at extraordinary rates. This causes them to radiate profusely across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), these sources are often so bright that they outshine their host galaxies and have been detected out to the far reaches of the observable Universe.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-08-galactic-nuclei-requires-rethink.html#jCp

Does this mean the core of the milkyway will become a AGN? If so does this mean anything for Earth?
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Original Message The colossal black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy will soon to get a big, tasty meal, astronomers say.

A humongous gas cloud is on a collision course for the Milky Way's core — the home of Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star"), which scientists suspect is a supermassive black hole with the mass of 4 million suns.

When the huge gas cloud arrives in the vicinity, which it will appear to us to do in mid-2013, it will surely be swallowed up by the hungry black hole, scientists say.

[link to www.space.com]

Supermassive black holes lie at the core of all massive galaxies, including the Milky Way. Whereas the majority of them are inactive, a small fraction of these black holes are accreting the surrounding matter at extraordinary rates. This causes them to radiate profusely across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), these sources are often so bright that they outshine their host galaxies and have been detected out to the far reaches of the observable Universe.

Read more at: [link to phys.org]

Does this mean the core of the milkyway will become a AGN? If so does this mean anything for Earth?

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