This simulation shows the future behaviour of a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a>. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013.
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