OT: Our galaxy's black hole

We are living in a golden age of cosmology. The Event Horizon Telescope network has captured the second-ever direct image of a black hole — called Sagittarius A* — at the centre of the Milky Way. This network includes radio telescopes in locations ranged from Spain to the South Pole and from Chile to Hawaii, plus the data processing of nearly four petabytes (4,000 terabytes) of data.

Sagittarius A* varies on time scales of 5 to 15 minutes. The analysts are planning to re-process the data to create a movie. Wouldn’t that be totally cool?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01320-y?utm_sourc…

Wendy

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!!! Wonderful !!!

david fb

Does anyone else see the Eye of Sauron?

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