Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

Physics.org ^ | Sept. 11, 2019 | Stuart Wolpert

[Innovative]

The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don't yet understand why.

"We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. "It's usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don't know what is driving this big feast."

A paper about the study, led by the UCLA Galactic Center Group, which Ghez heads, is published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

[Innovative]

Then we won't have to worry about global warming anymore.

[Cboldt]

They’re hangry!

[Bayard]

We’re all gonna die...I mean eventually, but we’re all gonna die just the same...

[kaehurowing]

Oh no!

[mlo]

It’s eating too many carbs.

[C210N]

Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

And Leon's getting Larger.

[\/\/ayne]

[Fungi]

If you cannot see a black hole, how do you know it is there? So all this interstellar stuff “seems to disappear,” so what, and how do they know it's a black hole eating it up? Prove it.

[lurk]

The dems have a solution for that. Just give them a couple hundred trillion dollars and absolute power.

[dfwgator]

“Feed Me, Seymour!”

[billorites]

It's just one thing after another!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Feed it some Democrats.

[_longranger81]

You see? You SEEE???
THIS is what HAPPENS when you let IRRESPONSIBLE fascistcapitalistracisthomoPHOBicantiscienceguntotingbiblethumpingantiabortionistswhodontcareaboutchildrenslavemongeringcolonialists run the world.

Put the smart Marxists in charge before the Black Hole eats the whole Universe!!!!

[Shady]

Since the Death Spiral of these stars happened 24,000 years ago (give or take a week) who knows how much Gas the Milky Black Hole has gobbled up since.. Brain Hurt.

[LIConFem]

Send it George Soros. It’ll choke to death.

[Openurmind]

It will have to stop and burp in a bit. This might be when to worry.

[Alas Babylon!]

Uh oh!

Isn’t this why the Puppeteer’s Fleet of Worlds left the galaxy?

Will we find the Ringworld?

[Jamestown1630]

I’m cool with however death happens. (I don’t think we generally get a choice, anyway; unless we seriously and willfully abuse ourselves, we go out ‘on cue’- as one of my favorite spiritual writers has said.)

Somebody Else is in charge of ‘our time’ here.

[fieldmarshaldj]

NOM-NOM

[Dundee]

There is a good Youtube video explaining black holes and their accretion disks. How to Understand the Black Hole Image