Posted on 01/19/2017 4:07:03 PM PST by MtnClimber
We know one lurks at the center of the Milky Way, but to these astronomers, seeing will be believing.
The center of the galaxy doesn’t look like much, even if you’re lucky enough to live in a place where the night sky is sufficiently dark to see the bands of the Milky Way. In visible light, the stars between here and there blur together into a single brilliant source, like a bright beam hiding the lighthouse behind it.
But in other types of radiation—radio waves, infrared, X-rays—astronomers have detected the presence of an object with the mass of four million suns packed into a region smaller than our solar system: a supermassive black hole.
Astronomers call it Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* (pronounced “sadge A star”) for short, because it’s located (from our point of view) in the Sagittarius constellation. Discovering the Milky Way’s black hole has helped cement the idea that the center of nearly every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole. But despite mounting evidence for black holes, we still haven’t seen one directly.
That may change very soon. Astronomers are about to begin an observing project that may result in what was once thought impossible: a picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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I have seen 0bama. Does that count?
I don't think so. That's " 'hole ". Punctuation counts.
Look quick - one will be visible at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for another few hours...maybe two.
Ex-First Ladies do not engage in such low-class cinematic endeavors.
Black holes are outta sight!
That would be “black a-hole”. Mind the distinction, please.
He's from Hawaii, and he's half-white, so he's a Black Haole.
it is the sound of removing all the muslim commie crud and various wh memorabilia
Oh, how I remember with great fondness those summer evenings in our back yard when Pop and I gazed up into the sky.
“Look, Dad! There’s a Black Hole!”
“You idiot. Your cap fell down over your eyes again. Go get me another beer.”
The image at the source is an “artists’ concept”.
Damn them to hell!
thought this was about the obammys
Wookiee in Palm Springs?
GMTA, black azz hole
Put a few billion trillion of these in the same neighborhood and you can have your very own big bang. Light fuse and vas das blinking lights.
No. That’s a ho!
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