CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- NASA says data from its Chandra X-ray space telescope suggests the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be devouring asteroids.
The vaporization of the asteroids as they are swallowed by the black hole, known as Sgr A*, may be the cause of frequent X-ray flares observed by Chandra over several years, a release from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., said Thursday.