Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster
BBC News,
by
Jonathan Amos
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/12/2022 10:11:13 AM
This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time.
Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun.
What you see is a central dark region where the hole resides, circled by the light coming from super-heated gas accelerated by immense gravitational forces.
For scale, the ring is roughly the size of Mercury's orbit around our star.
That's about 60 million km, or 40 million miles, across.
Fortunately, this monster is a long, long way away - some 26,000 light-years in the distance - so there's no possibility of us ever coming to any danger.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 5/12/2022 10:31:26 AM (No. 1153061)
Doncha just hate reading articles like this that make you feel so small and insignificant?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 5/12/2022 10:39:50 AM (No. 1153070)
Did they catch a view of any lights coming out and heading our way???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/12/2022 10:43:22 AM (No. 1153080)
Thanks OP for an interesting article that isn't about politics. I used the term "black hole" in front of a black person who seemed to be offended. Didn't mean anything racial. Astronomers learned their lesson. Now we have Dark Matter and Dark Energy. No more black about anything in the sky.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 5/12/2022 10:46:48 AM (No. 1153085)
Galactic Man Made Warming? Oh the humanity!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/12/2022 10:48:44 AM (No. 1153088)
It is a picture of stuff around a black hole but it is not a picture of a black hole.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/12/2022 11:01:30 AM (No. 1153112)
Totally immaterial. Why does our tax money go to support this kind of 'research'? Because the 'scientists' couldn't make a living any other way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/12/2022 11:11:03 AM (No. 1153133)
A black hole, kind of like the DNC.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/12/2022 11:34:41 AM (No. 1153165)
#1 Often, but not this time. We see it! We know about it. We are aware of it. It's the "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it"... But for the first time, WE heard it. Unlike the other animals, we can pay testament to creation at the very core of this galaxy. That doesn't make me feel like we are insignificant, that makes me feel like mankind is brilliant and growing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
dman 5/12/2022 11:43:12 AM (No. 1153181)
Black holes or the 'devolution' of increasing entropy per the second 'law' of thermodynamics: these are our ultimate fate without our Creator's hand. Without Divine intervention/intelligent design, all is 'vanity under the sun', as Ecclesiastes declares.
Was there pain, injustice, or global warming in Atlantis? Do we know? Do we care?
Dittos with our era. Without God, does any of this really matter?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
broken01 5/12/2022 11:43:58 AM (No. 1153184)
The heck with a Black Hole in space we have one here on Earth. It's The View Studios where the gravitational pull is so strong that facts, logic and common sense seem to get sucked into another dimension on a daily basis.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/12/2022 11:53:59 AM (No. 1153199)
For a minute i though it was an x-ray of Joe Biden's brain.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janjan 5/12/2022 12:02:03 PM (No. 1153212)
#6 I would rather spend money on this then cell phones for illegals. This is exciting scientific discovery.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/12/2022 12:08:17 PM (No. 1153219)
More like BLM, #7. Millions go into that black hole but nothing can escape.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 5/12/2022 12:22:51 PM (No. 1153244)
The most important question is:
Is the black hole part of the path to the third heaven?
(It's glorious to read about the unexplainable......that man cannot control.)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/12/2022 12:59:53 PM (No. 1153276)
What’s the excitement? There’s one at D.C. already.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/12/2022 1:43:28 PM (No. 1153311)
Never trust a person who says "no possibility" when he doesn't truly know. What if the black hole is powerful enough to create its own wormhole and emerge in our solar system tomorrow? It would be like a blue whale gobbling a sunfish. Happy thought, in all probability we will blow ourselves up before that happens.
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EJKrausJr 5/12/2022 1:45:44 PM (No. 1153313)
If you look at the spiral that orbits around the black hole and which contains our solar system, sometime in the future our system will be sucked into Sag A. After my time so I'm not worried a bit. We can expect the FJB admin to proclaim a Black Hole Warning as another fubar distraction
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
john56 5/12/2022 2:12:19 PM (No. 1153338)
Remember the old joke.
God decides that He's had it and is going to end the world. But being a caring God, He decides to call up a couple newspapers and give them a heads up that the world will end the day after tomorrow.
The next day, the headlines read -
In the New York Times: "God Says World Will End Tomorrow." Full analysis on page E-38.
In the Wall Street Journal: "God Says Earth Ends Tomorrow>" Markets to Close Early Today.
In USA Today: "God Says We're Outtta Here!"
In the Washington Post: "God Says World Ends TOmorrow." Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2022 3:45:36 PM (No. 1153421)
Fortunately, far away, and not going to affect Earth for millions or billions of years, if ever. I'll be lucky to last 25 years, so not my problem.
Interesting, yes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/12/2022 5:49:55 PM (No. 1153510)
The black hole is an energy conduit. The entire universe is one giant battery. Life is the AI that maximizes that energy output.
Or not.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/12/2022 5:53:28 PM (No. 1153515)
Thanks for posting, OP!
This is the very first "picture" of Sagittarius A*.....wonderful! Article contains lots of interesting information!
Apparently, as black holes go, this one is not one of the larger ones….
Gotta' love that "very long baseline array interferometry (VLBI)"!
Also, only a few more months until the Webb is ready to swing into action…..very exciting!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61268680
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/12/2022 8:05:17 PM (No. 1153606)
Magnificent. Someone or something has created this universe. I am certainly not smart enough to know who or what did it but it was definitely created by some entity. At one time I was a doubting agnostic but as the years have gone by, I have become a believer. It’s not just my age but certain things and events have convinced and changed me.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
privateer 5/13/2022 9:49:25 AM (No. 1154057)
Regarding the funding spent on such pointless research: how else could Raj afford to serve foie gras to Cinnamon?
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