Behold: The first picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy

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The image will help scientists continue studying whether physics as we know it—and in particular, Einstein’s theory of general relativity—holds up in the extreme environment surrounding a supermassive black hole

. “Bravo to the EHT team.”

If M87’s 6.5-billion-solar-mass black hole were plopped in the center of the solar system, it would obliterate everything up to 130 times farther from the sun than Earth; Sagittarius A*, on the other hand, wouldn’t even fill Mercury’s orbit. The new image reveals some key details about the gravitational drain at the center of our galaxy, including its spin orientation, which suggests the top of the black hole—or the bottom, depending on your perspective—is aimed almost directly at Earth.

Such fits and starts from Sagittarius A* have left imprints on molecules in the interstellar medium that suggest its activity varies—at least moderately—on timescales of millennia, or even centuries. And while scientists know that a black hole’s activity varies with the amount of material it consumes, it’s not clear how that process works.

 

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ALZAN941603 Ahahahahahaha are you serious?

parallax error system, objects in space and time😅

We are si exated to know more about it

Science's allready devlopped and reaserchs found many secrets of galaxy🗺

The ring of light we are actually seeing is the accretion disk. That's the ring of gas that surrounds the blackhole. The blackhole itself is invisible.

It's a lil blurry tbh

Another dimension

Perhaps when we will get justice in this country for all the traitorous actions of our elected officials at every level of government of both parties.

Is a Black Hole really Black or a Hole? I like to think opposite of what my brain says anything is. White Barrier nothing can enter the White Barrier's event horizon. Sound familiar. POTUS45 DonaldJTrumpJr

😳😳

looks like someone put a finger on a lens.😂😂😂😂

It doesn't hold in any environment:

Supermasive Black Hole.. Muse.. Twilight.. Stephanie Meyer... One of my favorite soundtracks. One of my favorite writer And my very favorite novel 😊 Thank you so much NatGeo 🙏🙏🌻🌻

The black hole is the one in the middle, I presume.

How come everyone believes the blurry picture of a black hole but not my blurry picture of Bigfoot?

This is truly awesome.

Nature'c control tool to stop erratic behavior of this stupid human. Welcome dear.

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Where all the 10mm sockets go 🤔

Shot is blurry, like the first one.

That black hole commonly known as a rat hole is where the money goes. That's a computer generated graph using worthless radio data input to a program that needed several 'adjustments' before it finally took shape. Nobody knows the actual source of radio waves used.

Looks like a triangle

blurry and out of focus

Not the first.

Sorry, couldn't resist this 😆

Black hole & real 'Belgian UFO'...: SIMILARITIES !

enough lies please

__JetSetWilly__ Sin duda, la noticia más apasionante e inspiradora del día

There are new steps in Physics beyond Einstein.

I thought that this was done a couple of years ago? There was a lady scientist who was part of the team and she had her photo all over the media with a stack of data tapes with the data beside her.

devux_nullux lui il sait

And why should I believe this?

It will, Einsteins theory is correct. Light and matter bend. To me he was one of the smartest people on the planet. One of my other favorite was Tesla. I love outer space. Lolove.

The accretion disk, actually. Not the black hole itself. Black holes, by definition cannot be photographed since they emit no light.

Is somebody messing around? This looks identical to the M87 picture from a couple years ago

And this will improve our daily lives how? Who rwally cares? Don't we have enough problems on earth?

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