Em in Ohio
Senior Member
- Location
- OH HI OH
First ever picture of our own black hole - When theory becomes fact:
"The Milky Way black hole -- called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations -- is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away from Earth. A light-year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers), or the distance that light travels in one Earth year.
Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies have these supermassive black holes at their center, although humans cannot see them because they are completely dark. These vacuous objects swallow light that gets chaotically twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss.
But dark, glowing gas around it reveals "a telltale signature: a dark central region called a 'shadow' surrounded by a bright ring-like structure," scientists said."
The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole."
https://www.accuweather.com/en/spac...ver-image-of-the-unseeable-black-hole/1186591
"The Milky Way black hole -- called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations -- is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away from Earth. A light-year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers), or the distance that light travels in one Earth year.
Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies have these supermassive black holes at their center, although humans cannot see them because they are completely dark. These vacuous objects swallow light that gets chaotically twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss.
But dark, glowing gas around it reveals "a telltale signature: a dark central region called a 'shadow' surrounded by a bright ring-like structure," scientists said."
The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole."
https://www.accuweather.com/en/spac...ver-image-of-the-unseeable-black-hole/1186591
