https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123903003
The cloud of gas falling toward the central black hole in the milky way
1 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Catalonia
2 Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia
a e-mail: miralda@icc.ub.edu
The cloud of gas that will pass within 200AU of the central black hole of our Galaxy in 2013 may be generated by a disk around an old, low-mass star that was created in a tidal encounter with one of the stellar black holes that are expected to accumulate in the central region of the stellar cusp.
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