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Astronomers Are About to Make a Massive Announcement About Something in The Milky Way
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 29 APRIL 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA

Posted on 05/03/2022 6:25:48 AM PDT by Red Badger

In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.

It's anyone's guess what the announcement will be, but based on what we know of their recent efforts, there's reason to get excited – the results being presented are from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, which was responsible for producing the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019.

For years now the EHT project has been studying the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which is most likely home to a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*.

Whatever they've found out, they're making a big deal out of it.

Since the scientists are hosting simultaneous press conferences around the globe, it's a good chance what they are keeping under wraps is the next instalment after the historic 2019 moment of the first black hole reveal.

A conference will be streamed about the findings online on 12 May 2022 at 15:00 CEST (13:00 UTC, 9:00 EST), followed by a YouTube event with six astronomers from around the world. Press releases will include "extensive supporting audiovisual material" (eek!).

If astronomers have managed to produce a direct image of Sgr A*'s event horizon, it will be a historic moment you don't want to miss.

Black holes are extremely difficult to image because they are quite literally invisible, absorbing all electromagnetic radiation. All that we can hope to see is the event horizon; essentially, the black hole's outline, which represents where light can no longer escape the black hole's gravitational forces.

But Sgr A* is obscured by a cloud of dust and gas, which makes it particularly difficult to study.

If astronomers have imaged the black hole's horizon, it should appear as a glowing donut. This is the black hole's accretion disc, a ring of gas and dust that gives off extreme radiation as it falls into the abyss.

Glowing orange ring on a black background, with a fog of red surrounding it (EHT Collaboration)

ESO's press release is promising something "groundbreaking", which is the same wording they used before announcing the first direct image of a black hole in 2019.

This black hole was at the center of the galaxy M87, and it has a mass 6.5 billion times that of our Sun. Its event horizon has a radius of roughly 20 billion kilometers, and it's really far away.

Experts compare taking a direct image of it to observing an object 1 millimeter in size from a distance of 13,000 kilometers away (8,000 miles).

Sgr A* is much closer to us, being at the heart of our own galaxy. However, it is rather small for a supermassive black hole, only 4.3 million times bigger than the Sun. It's only detectable because it's relatively much closer to Earth than M87*.

So if astronomers have finally captured an image of its event horizon, it certainly would be groundbreaking.

We can't wait to see what the ESO is about to show us: watch this space. You can find more details about the announcement here.


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; eso; milkyway; physics; science; stringtheory
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To: Red Badger

Well that’s a little intense, out of context it just sounds sort of fun.

Hold my wine and watch this!!! I’m going to roll up the heavens. Maybe that will get their attention.


21 posted on 05/03/2022 6:52:55 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
The James Webb telescope has noticed the heavens are rolling up.

Gabriel's Leading the singing!

22 posted on 05/03/2022 6:58:07 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: Red Badger
We're a Seyfert galaxy?


23 posted on 05/03/2022 7:00:04 AM PDT by null and void (Russia no longer looks like the #2 military power in the world. Maybe #2 military power in Ukraine)
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To: DannyTN
I predict that when the TIME comes (to an END), the actual Heavens WILL be 'rolled up' like a curtain being pulled aside on stage, and God and all the host of Heaven will be revealed to everyone on Earth simultaneously.
24 posted on 05/03/2022 7:01:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Alas Babylon!

</smirk>


25 posted on 05/03/2022 7:02:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ShadowAce

That was one creepy movie.

L


26 posted on 05/03/2022 7:04:08 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: carriage_hill

Black holes are RACIST


27 posted on 05/03/2022 7:04:13 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: COBOL2Java

28 posted on 05/03/2022 7:04:59 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Yo-Yo

That show was the biggest turd I have watched in a long time.


29 posted on 05/03/2022 7:05:34 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: Don Corleone

So is snow!


30 posted on 05/03/2022 7:07:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger


31 posted on 05/03/2022 7:09:00 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

A received message from deep space: besuretodrinkyourovaltine


32 posted on 05/03/2022 7:15:24 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

“I’m betting it’s something about Uranus.”

A Klingon?


33 posted on 05/03/2022 7:15:27 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: Red Badger

The photo doesn’t fit, but I thought it might be the city New Jerusalem coming down from Heaven to be God’s dwelling place. A 1500 mile cube, which will hover over planet Earth.

“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Rev. 21:2

Got to keep watching for it.


34 posted on 05/03/2022 7:15:53 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Red Badger

Looks like it might be a close up of Uranus.


35 posted on 05/03/2022 7:19:39 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: fruser1

Yep, galactic co2 levels highest in 14 billion years.


36 posted on 05/03/2022 7:23:39 AM PDT by daku
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To: Red Badger
It's a trap! | Star Wars Memes Wiki | Fandom
38 posted on 05/03/2022 7:26:51 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: BobinIL
That show was the biggest turd I have watched in a long time.

A turd, yes, and and per the writer was supposed to be an allegory for global warming and government's apathy and inaction to resolve it, which is why it was such a turd.

But still a great source for memes.

39 posted on 05/03/2022 7:28:44 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Poison Pill

Or “send more Chuck Berry”.😏


40 posted on 05/03/2022 7:29:26 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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