Black holes have been the subject of much hoopla in the astronomy community lately. Earlier this year, two embryonic stars were discovered just a few light years away from the super massive black hole that lies at the Milky Way's center. It is thought that these stars were born in place rather than forming elsewhere and being "sucked in" by the black hole's gravitational field. Theoretically it is possible for the stars to have formed in more traditional stellar nurseries and moved toward the center of the galaxy, but this theory has been discounted. Why?
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The theory has been discounted because the stars were observed as they formed. Due to the intense gravitational field, visible light cannot escape, so infrared and radio wavelengths were used to form an image of the forming stars. . . I think.
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