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Science 19 December 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5346, p. 2055
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2055
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Research News

ASTRONOMY:
Black Hole Lurks in Miniature Quasar

Alexander Hellemans

Astronomers are getting a closeup view of quasar behavior in a scaled-down model--a so-called microquasar in our own galaxy. Like its full-sized relatives, the microquasar is thought to contain a black hole, and it shows similar violent behavior, sometimes ejecting high-speed streams of ultrahot gas visible with radiotelescopes.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)