Star Gazing

Discussion in 'The Thunderdome' started by Indy, Oct 1, 2012.

  1. Indy

    Indy Pronoun Analyst

    Bump.
     
  2. NEW COACH

    NEW COACH Contributor

    You really trying to win the worst poster award
     
  3. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    A serious post for this thread, as it is something that I find completely fascinating:



    *** Below is WRONG. it is a picture of the black hole at the center of M87 and is 6.7 Billion Solar Masses in size ***

    A picture of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, weighing in (ok, massing in, but whatever), at 4 million solar masses. What we see is the accretion disk around the black hole. I find this just one of the great achievements in science. What a time to be alive.

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    Last edited: Apr 10, 2019
  4. Indy

    Indy Pronoun Analyst

    god damn it, Norris. That’s not what this bump is about!
     
  5. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Dude, RHV is crushing you. Because [uck fay] Auburn.
     
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  6. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Mordor
     
  7. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Here is a great video explaining what we are seeing. The warping of space around a black hole has some truly bizarre implications, such as you can see the entire "surface" of the event horizon because of how light gets bent around the black hole.

     
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  8. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    I want to make a correction:

    It is not the black hole at the center of OUR galaxy, but galaxy M87 and is 6.7 Billion Solar Masses in size.
     
  9. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    All done by computer. Not real. Black hole would not have light.
     
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  10. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    I don't think it is the hole with the light.
     

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