Galactic supermassive black hole and pulsar, illustration. Black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy (left) with an intense magnetic field around it, affecting a pulsar (far right) that has been discovered inside the field. Like a buoy bouncing on the waves, the pulsar's pulse twists in this intense magnetic field. The amount of twist helps to gauge the strength of the field and hence the power of the black hole. The Milky Way's galactic centre is around 26, 000 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Sagittarius. | |
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