Simulation of gas cloud being ripped apart by the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

This simulation shows a gas cloud, discovered in 2011, as it passes close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope in 2013 show that the cloud is so stretched that the front part of it has passed the closest point and is travelling away from the black hole at more than 10 million km/h, whilst the tail is still falling towards it.

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Credit:
ESO/S. Gillessen/MPE/Marc Schartmann

[franckmalers]

I heard the simulation prediction was wrong but can't find any paper on what really happened. ESO, please help!

[ser_]

No. I don't think the gas cloud can escape the gravitational pull of the black hole. After it gets semi destroyed on the first pass, it'll come back around to take another beating until it becomes part of the black hole.

[ericrodriguez]

So this means gas is heading towards earth at super fast speed

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