FfFfFfFF 58,083 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Astronomers have captured the deepest and sharpest images of the Milky Way's center ever, enabling scientists to estimate the mass of the giant black hole at our galaxy's heart with unmatched precision. The Milky Way observations, made with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, also revealed a previously unknown star orbiting close to our galaxy's mysterious central black hole, called Sagittarius A*. "Following stars on close orbits around Sagittarius A* allows us to precisely probe the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole to Earth, to test general relativity, and to determine the properties of the black hole," Reinhard Genzel, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for his decades-long research of Sagittarius A*, said in the statement. Source - https://www.space.com/milky-way-center-black-hole-deepest-sharpest-images Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A MESS 3,938 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 something in the name Very Large Telescope is making me cackle Генерал Марина Абрамовић Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Judas 4,106 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 hour ago, A MESS said: something in the name Very Large Telescope is making me cackle They're also building a telescope called Extremely Large Telescope Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,843 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I love how the article mentions this allows them to calculate the blackholes mass with the most precision yet... And then it doesnt give us the mass number Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,843 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 12 hours ago, Mr Judas said: They're also building a telescope called Extremely Large Telescope And after that "Extremely Large Telescope XL" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Mayhem 3,672 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 54 minutes ago, Economy said: And after that "Extremely Large Telescope XL" Actually it’s Extremely Large Telescope (Where Do You Think You’re Going?) [Piano Version] (Re-Up) [NASAs Version] ℭ𝔞𝔫 ℑ 𝔙𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔥 ℑ𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔜𝔬𝔲 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipper 13,114 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 What in the bokeh is that 🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 58,083 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 9 hours ago, Economy said: And after that "Extremely Large Telescope XL" ''Somehow Large Telescope'', Large, but Not as Large as the Others'' and ''Small Telescope'' coming next! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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