For the first time, astronomers have spotted a black hole's lunch before it gets eaten.
A cloud of gas is being pulled closer to the supermassive black hole* lurking in the center of our galaxy, 27,000 light-years away. This unprecedented discovery is being monitored by an international team of scientists using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
The cool cloud -- composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, with a mass three-times that of Earth -- has been picking up speed, and by 2013, astronomers will hopefully see some fireworks. By then, the first wisps of gas should be sucked into the black hole's event horizon causing the black hole to flare brightly.
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