OT: For space-y and science-y nerds - the Milky Way's black hole has been imaged
I don't know the scientific details, but the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a collection of 11 radio telescopes around the world joined together to image black holes. It was used to collect thousands of radio images of Sag A* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, our very own black hole! Some of the images were released today, including a video animation, showing the black hole for the first time in history.
No word yet on whether Michigan's 2017-2018 OL has been found...
This is where you can find the black hole when looking at the sky:
These are the radio telescopes used:
This is our black hole (kinda looks like... well, nevermind):
Here is the link to the animation. There is far more interesting news about this here, because I just some local rando interested in such items that doesn't actually know anything about them!
My daughter is geeking-out about this at this very moment. Great stuff.
Show her this:
https://www.techexplorist.com/monster-black-hole-flipped-magnetic-field/47243/
A monster black hole just flipped its magnetic field
And here I was just thinking it was a Soundgarden kind of day.
Chris Cornell's cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" could be apropos...
As this is the “one” supermassive at center of our galaxy and you mention Cornell, find the video of him singing Metallica’s One lyrics over U2’s One guitar part. The man was magic and is missed.
To wash away the rain?
the image is also surprisingly similar to the superunknown cover art...
Came here to post this, but you beat me to it.
"Zoom. . . enhance"
Whoever gets assigned to this problem, please just take the eagles instead of walking.
Man, come on. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!
Sauron would see them coming and would send the Nazgul and their fellbeasts to intercept them and fuck them up. Better just to send Elijah Wood and Sean Astin.
and don't forget to throw the ring in!
Right?!?
Scarier than I thought!
Tell your wife they have pills for that.
BOOM! High five!
kinda looks like... well, nevermind
I'd say an inflamed asshole (no, not Mark Dantonio). But I'm really curious what you wanted to say there.😊
Anyhow, this is really really really cool!
We think alike...
It is so fascinating to know that all the matter in our massive galaxy revolves around a very large irritated butthole.
Science is amazing...
Well, more like an anti-butthole. Nothing leaves a black hole. Buttholes are exits, uh, for the most part.
Well, scientifically speaking I'd just say. . . eww?
Unless.... we're on the inside!
'exits'...allegedly.
I'm thinking that if it knew it's picture would be taken, it probably would have tried a little bleach.
...a large, irritated butthole not named FauxMo.
and a singularity you would not want to see.
We're circling the drain.
Also known as "Oompa Loompa's Butthole" to the common man.
You can now actually see BPONE.
This looks like your obligatory "any space related OP" response!!
The universe is badass.
Pretty literally.
Do not explore the Event Horizon!
God, I love this fucking crazy-ass movie. It is glorious trash.
Towards the end the story got a little strange like there were some editing errors or something. But I think this is an underrated movie, personally.
I saw that in theaters when I was like 14 and I was extremely disturbed for that night and the whole next day. I still remember some guy hanging on hooks with all of his guts lying on the table, and that was 24 years ago!
No word yet on whether Michigan's 2017-2018 OL has been found...
Same place as MBB's 2013 national championship.
Hey, one of our Michigan peeps pretty much planted the flag and declared the moon ours in the name of the king, man.
Turns out the supermassive black hole is at the center of Uranus. Go figure.
I poked around, but I don't find it.
those are pictures of the inside of my wallet.
black holes are crazy cool and if I didn't hate physics so much as an undergrad, that's probably what I'd be studying in my professional career.
As matter squishes down under the immense gravitational weight of a collapsing star, it meets resistance. The discreteness of space-time prevents matter from reaching anything smaller than the Planck length (around 1.68 x 10^-35 meters). All the material that has ever fallen into the black hole gets compressed into a ball not much bigger than this. Perfectly microscopic, but definitely not infinitely tiny.
This resistance to continued compression eventually forces the material to un-collapse (i.e., explode), making black holes only temporary objects. But because of the extreme time dilation effects around black holes, from our perspective in the outside universe it takes billions, even trillions, of years before they go boom. So we're all set for now.
So, the creation of the universe (big bang) could technically be the explosion of a massive black hole that swallowed the "previous" universe
This, uh, sounds pretty hokey. As conjecture it may be plausible conjecture, but we don't have an equation of state for the inside of a black hole because, by definition, we're unable to directly observe it. And since this theory says it can't be verified anyway due to the time dilation, it might as well have added unicorns into the mix.
So, black holes may really look like this?
Except the hands would be spaghettified to the point of glowing with x-rays, but sure, why not.
Maybe it's a supermassive black hole and enormous hands so the spaghettification wouldn't happen until somewhere inside the event horizon. The unicorn can survive unharmed because, as we all know, they're magical.
For the Asimov fans...
And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light--”
For now. I repeat, FOR NOW. I hope they are retrofitting that bad boy with a very early warning system.
I got ya black hole RIGHT HE-AHHH!