May 17, 2012 11:54 AM EDT
3-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists to Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled
By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away, a method that has yielded an unprecedented amount of data for such observa...