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The atoms that make us
 
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Intense sources of gamma rays lie in the centre of our own Galaxy. Results from INTEGRAL, like the image simulated here, may answer the question: is there a giant black hole in the centre of the Milky Way?

Credits: University Birmingham and IBIS team, INTEGRAL (ESA); infrared background, IRAS/IPAC and Skyview/NASA
 
  Last update: 15 October 2002 


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