Sagittarius A, the first image of the center of your galaxy

[SlammedZero]

Enjoy the first image of the center of your galaxy. This was taken by the "Event Horizon Telescope", which actually employs 11 different radio telescopes around the world. Together they act in concert to form a telescope array. Though black holes are virtually "invisible" due to their ability to swallow light, paradoxically they are the most luminous objects in the universe. Materials such as gas, dust, shredded stars, etc. that fall into a black hole are heated to millions of degrees and become incredibly bright. This is what forms the donut looking shape in the picture.

Sagittarius_A* is a black hole that is at the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is 25,640 light years away from Earth, has a mass of about 4 million times that of our sun, and is around 14.6 million miles wide.

 

[Rack]

That's what I see everytime I wake up with a hangover.

 

[BigStar]

Space is scary...so vast it's overwhelming tbh

Cool image (didn't know a black hole was orange but seeing now on google they are neon multicolored)...4 million times the size of the sun just doesn't compute in my small brain.

So bigger than the room I can hardly imagine in the first place!?

 

[dsturgeon]

Black holes eat light and poop out yellow donuts

It is kind of impressive

 

[Runwildboys]

Space is scary...so vast it's overwhelming tbh

Cool image (didn't know a black hole was orange but seeing now on google they are neon multicolored)...4 million times the size of the sun just doesn't compute in my small brain.

So bigger than the room I can hardly imagine in the first place!?

What you're seeing is the accretion disc, spinning at near light speed. If I'm not mistaken, the brighter parts are where it's spinning toward us.

I'd read that they were probably going to be doing this soon, but I didn't know the date. Thanks for posting this, @SlammedZero !

 

[Runwildboys]

Enjoy the first image of the center of your galaxy. This was taken by the "Event Horizon Telescope", which actually employs 11 different radio telescopes around the world. Together they act in concert to form a telescope array. Though black holes are virtually "invisible" due to their ability to swallow light, paradoxically they are the most luminous objects in the universe. Materials such as gas, dust, shredded stars, etc. that fall into a black hole are heated to millions of degrees and become incredibly bright. This is what forms the donut looking shape in the picture.

Sagittarius_A* is a black hole that is at the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is 25,640 light years away from Earth, has a mass of about 4 million times that of our sun, and is around 14.6 million miles wide.

It's only slightly clearer than the picture of M87, a few years ago. I imagine because that one was over a thousand times bigger, but much, much farther away.

 

[dsturgeon]

Enjoy the first image of the center of your galaxy. This was taken by the "Event Horizon Telescope", which actually employs 11 different radio telescopes around the world. Together they act in concert to form a telescope array. Though black holes are virtually "invisible" due to their ability to swallow light, paradoxically they are the most luminous objects in the universe. Materials such as gas, dust, shredded stars, etc. that fall into a black hole are heated to millions of degrees and become incredibly bright. This is what forms the donut looking shape in the picture.

Sagittarius_A* is a black hole that is at the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is 25,640 light years away from Earth, has a mass of about 4 million times that of our sun, and is around 14.6 million miles wide.

If there are any diagrams, individual pictures, or videos about how they do the array between the telescopes, will you post it?

I am interested in what the combination would provide over the single or how it works. I am guessing there differences in between them and they all provide layers in the picture

 

[BigStar]

What you're seeing is the accretion disc, spinning at near light speed. If I'm not mistaken, the brighter parts are where it's spinning toward us.

I'd read that they were probably going to be doing this soon, but I didn't know the date. Thanks for posting this, @SlammedZero !

Oh very cool appr the info! I just always had a black vacuum type of image in my head...was way off obv.

I gotta watch more Rick and Morty!

 

[darthseinfeld]

Enjoy the first image of the center of your galaxy. This was taken by the "Event Horizon Telescope", which actually employs 11 different radio telescopes around the world. Together they act in concert to form a telescope array. Though black holes are virtually "invisible" due to their ability to swallow light, paradoxically they are the most luminous objects in the universe. Materials such as gas, dust, shredded stars, etc. that fall into a black hole are heated to millions of degrees and become incredibly bright. This is what forms the donut looking shape in the picture.

Sagittarius_A* is a black hole that is at the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is 25,640 light years away from Earth, has a mass of about 4 million times that of our sun, and is around 14.6 million miles wide.

I imagine this is what Sauron looks like after a few too many games of Mordor Beer Pong

 

[nobody]

All these comparisons are great. It looks awesome!

But it sort of looks like how it feels sitting on the toilet the day after eating a lot of spicy food.

 

[DallasEast]

Wish there was a way of environmentally and economically loading all the waste humans create onto rockets. The start-to-dump trip would take forever but sending all the crap we make into a black hole would be cool.

Yeah yeah. We could do the same thing by aiming rockets at the Sun. Stop spoiling my fun.

 

[dsturgeon]

Wish there was a way of environmentally and economically loading all the waste humans create onto rockets. The start-to-dump trip would take forever but sending all the crap we make into a black hole would be cool.

Yeah yeah. We could do the same thing by aiming rockets at the Sun. Stop spoiling my fun.

There is no need for rockets. That is what the pacific ocean is for.

 

[Rack]

Better to send a few billion people into a black hole, and their waste along with them.

I'm sure finding worthy candidates wouldn't be difficult.

 

[dsturgeon]

Better to send a few billion people into a black hole, and their waste along with them.

I'm sure finding worthy candidates wouldn't be difficult.

who would you deem worthy?

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Black holes only exist in theory. Just like the big bang only exist in theory. So one could choose not to believe in black holes altogether.

The fabric of space is just a theory.
Dark matter is just a theory.
Dark energy is just a theory.
The expanding universe is just a theory.
An astroid killed the dinosaurs is just a theory.
The sun is pure plasma is just a theory.



None of those theories have been proven and you can dismiss them if you feel like.

 

[dsturgeon]

Black holes only exist in theory. Just like the big bang only exist in theory. So one could choose not to believe in black holes altogether.

The fabric of space is just a theory.
Dark matter is just a theory.
Dark energy is just a theory.
The expanding universe is just a theory.
An astroid killed the dinosaurs is just a theory.
The sun is pure plasma is just a theory.



None of those theories have been proven and you can dismiss them if you feel like.

Has the earth rotating around the sun been proven?

 

[nobody]

Black holes only exist in theory. Just like the big bang only exist in theory. So one could choose not to believe in black holes altogether.

The fabric of space is just a theory.
Dark matter is just a theory.
Dark energy is just a theory.
The expanding universe is just a theory.
An astroid killed the dinosaurs is just a theory.
The sun is pure plasma is just a theory.



None of those theories have been proven and you can dismiss them if you feel like.

I have to wonder what your point of posting this was in this thread. I have to guess it was to troll and try to spark an argument.

 

[Rack]

who would you deem worthy?

Answering that question would most certainly get me banned.

I'll just say that if go ahead and volunteer myself for that trip.

 

[Runwildboys]

Wish there was a way of environmentally and economically loading all the waste humans create onto rockets. The start-to-dump trip would take forever but sending all the crap we make into a black hole would be cool.

Yeah yeah. We could do the same thing by aiming rockets at the Sun. Stop spoiling my fun.

Unfortunately, the ecological effects of sending said rockets into space would more than make up for any good done by getting rid of the waste. Now, if we could get the Cern Large Hadron Collider to create a small black hole, we might have something!

 

[dsturgeon]

Answering that question would most certainly get me banned.

I'll just say that if go ahead and volunteer myself for that trip.

I am a curious fella. If you would, private message me your answer